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Most of the time it isn't the same places that get hit. Its not as if the same neighborhood is rebuilt year after year, many of these places have homes and infr
by dghlsakjg 5y ago
Most of the time it isn't the same places that get hit. Its not as if the same neighborhood is rebuilt year after year, many of these places have homes and infrastructure that is 100 years old.
Also keep in mind that a majority of the East Coast is under threat from Hurricanes. If we just abandoned any area that has been severely damaged by a hurricane, there would effectively be an unpopulated coastline from Boston to the Mexican border.
- acdha 5y agoThere are steps between doing nothing and abandoning the east coast. There are some areas (right at sea level, river flood zones) which probably are better off as parks, and letting things like costal mangrove forests regrow would be important, but there’s a lot of places where a significant fraction of the existing buildings could remain viable if they were sensibly built following good design practice rather than as cheaply as the developers could get away with. It seems like something flood insurance and building codes should get increasingly stringent about, similar to how some California fire codes started requiring houses to be built to support sheltering in place during wildfires so you didn’t have so many people evacuating and needing to rebuild as many homes. It’d be nice if that started as guaranteed annual premium increases for unsafe properties with an assistance program for primary residences which phases out based on property value.