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Same for San Francisco. Two earthquakes and it must be returned back to the swamp. New York got hit bad with Sandy. Thirty years or so and we might level it to
by ebiester 4y ago
Same for San Francisco. Two earthquakes and it must be returned back to the swamp.
New York got hit bad with Sandy. Thirty years or so and we might level it too.
It turns out that with climate change, nothing is going to be safe. And with the pacific shelf, we will always have that as an issue too.
- brianwawok 4y agoHey, in the middle of BF Indiana, I am going to be having a very boring life years after NYC and SF are underwater!
- strangattractor 4y agoOne of the reasons SF is so expensive is the building codes. After the 89 earthquake somethings were not rebuilt. When the local Government allow homes to be built with lax standards simply because they want them to be cheap I agree they do not deserve to be rebuilt on the tax payers dime. Might also make the Condo safer.
- adventured 4y agoThat goes for severe blizzards for NYC as well, because I say so. Public funds must no longer be allocated to clearing snow from roads every year just because selfish people decide to live in NYC.
- eachro 4y agoAre those federal funds being used for snow clearage?
- 1123581321 4y agoFEMA spent about two billion on New York from Sandy.
- vaidhy 4y agoWhy move the goalpost? Snow clearance does not come from federal money.
- 1123581321 4y agoI apologize for upsetting you. You sounded as if you thought FEMA didn’t contribute financially to storm management in New York. I agree the other user’s comment about snow removal was flippant.
- mrguyorama 4y ago"Public funds" AREN'T used to clear the snow. People in NYC pay to clear the snow. The problem in this instance is that the federal government backstops a "flood insurance" program that is intrinsically not insurance, because the only people who buy into it are the ones that get flooded every year. Everyone in the risk pool is tied together. That's why there is no private flood insurance for the area, because it's literally impossible. All this money is a straight up handout to allow some specific people to keep getting a high value lifestyle on someone else's dime.
- tpmoney 4y agoI don't know that it's necessarily used for "clearing the snow", but FEMA funds on the order of millions of dollars have been used in NY for snow storms and blizzards in 2017, 2014, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000, and 1999 per their website[1]. While it doesn't list funding numbers, FEMA disasters were also declared in 1998, 1996, 1993, 1991, 1987, 1985 and 1977. This is in addition to hurricane funds, the most recent of which was just last year in 2021. And while FL has received significantly more FEMA funds than NY[2] (6.8B vs 405M), NY likewise receives significantly more than say their neighbor VT (56M) or far away MT (a mere 11M). Is all the money spent in NY likewise a "straight up handout to allow some specific people to keep getting a high value lifestyle on someone else's dime"? [1]: https://www.fema.gov/locations/new%20york#declared-disasters https://www.fema.gov/locations/new%20york#declared-disasters [2]: https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/national-preparedness/frameworks/national-disaster-recovery/support-functions/rsflg/state-profiles https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/national-preparednes...
- pkaye 4y agoBut there is no subsidy for earthquakes insurance like the national flood insurance program. Perhaps we should get rid of the national flood insurance program?