Re:Hurricane Ian damages in Southeast estimated at $100B to ...
by Amezarak on Saturday October 01, 2022 @01:47PM
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Storm surges come miles inland. It’s not just people on the beach. Most of the gulf coast is fairly flat and filled with other waterways.
What you’re looking at is anybody potentially within 30ft of sea level where any contiguous <30ft elevation is connected to water. I’ve known people 20 miles inland to be flooded by storm surges because they lived near a river, and the hurricane pushed all the water up the river.
The wind is not as big a concern, but also still does a lot of damage. During one major hurricane I evacuated 150 miles inland and still didn’t have power for a week. One person in the town I evacuated to was killed by a falling tree.
Re:Hurricane Ian damages in Southeast estimated at $100B to ...
by Lammy on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:50PM
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The coasts wouldn’t be returned to nature. They’d become enclaves of families rich enough to build and rebuild their beach houses without the help of insurance payouts.
Re:Hurricane Ian damages in Southeast estimated at $100B to ...
by thehappypm on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:38PM
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Plum Island, MA is kinda like that. Nearby inland Newburyport is a beautiful town with a riverfront, but the beach is all wild.
Having those coasts be parks with hundreds of miles of low-impact infrastructure like hiking/biking/walking paths, maybe simple low-key restaurants that aren't a big deal to rebuild every decade, etc.
Put all the heavier infrastructure like housing developments a few miles inland. Then everyone can enjoy these idyllic beach lands a little farther from all the buzz of cities. Everyone in the city can still easily go to the coastline-spanning megapark, but now the beach isn't lined with gaudy condos.
Sign me up!