This is what I was talking about with hurricane damage.

[SteveSS]

In places where small beach cottages once stood, magnificent new houses have been erected. Tidal creeks just off the oceanfront are booming with development. And in some vulnerable spots, high-rise condominiums tower above the ocean.

All this is occurring as sea level rises and more powerful storms lash the coast, and as S.C. legislators dismantle regulations to control coastal development.

The coastal buildup is a big issue for an array of reasons. It’s potentially dangerous because more people are living in the path of storms and rising seas, but building too close to the coast also threatens to pull money from the pockets of taxpayers. When people lose homes, condos and hotels along the coast, the federal government often winds up bailing out wealthy property owners through insurance, beach renourishment funding and emergency services.

The article is on Drudge today.

 

[Lefty71]

When people lose homes, condos and hotels along the coast, the federal government often winds up bailing out wealthy property owners through insurance, beach renourishment funding and emergency services.

FEMA and the fed also suck in homeowners who are unlikely to ever have flood damage and force them to contribute to this extravagent lifestyle as well. They reassess the topogrophy by computer model without boots on the ground to enroll more and more potential flood victims all the time, whilst, as you say, the real problem lies in coastal development to satisfy the rich! Bush started all this with Katrina.

 

[Richard Cranium]

the real problem lies in coastal development to satisfy the rich!

Hurricanes will always hit the mainland, but if weather related disasters, and so-called climate change & rising sea levels was a concern, the big O wouldn't have bought a 15 million dollar waterfront home on tony Martha's Vineyard.

 

[69a100]

Look at N.O. for cryin out loud! Why the hell would anybody build a city that's anywhere from 6.5 - 20 feet below Sea Level to continually get pummeled by Mother Nature? Lots of the area around Houston's the same way, as with many other large Metro areas in the U.S. near the coast which would include the whole state of Florida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans

 

[Hey-O]

My neighbor just moved to N.O. last week! He made the mistake of asking me what I thought. He's a petroleum engineer and I get that , I asked him if he understood that it was below sea level and he said, yes and I said, enjoy and good luck! I'm sorry, you buy stocks low and houses high.....

 

[68Moparmaniac]

N.O. and Florida is a great place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. The food there in N.O. is freakin awesome BTW.

 

[Cranky]

Look at N.O. for cryin out loud! Why the hell would anybody build a city that's anywhere from 6.5 - 20 feet below Sea Level to continually get pummeled by Mother Nature? Lots of the area around Houston's the same way, as with many other large Metro areas in the U.S. near the coast which would include the whole state of Florida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans

I've lived in the Houston area for 56 years and don't know of any areas around that's below sea level. Where I'm living is only about 20' above but after living in this house for 35 years it's never flooded.....and hasn't come close to being flooded. Did get a bit worried when Allison moved through. Made me wonder how much longer was it going to keep dumping continuous rain! It filled up the county flood control ditch and have never seen it that full since but the house is still several feet higher than the top of that ditch. Houston is listed as being 100+ feet above sea level. Go figure! Makes me wonder where that measurement was established. And engineers is what sank NO.....

 

[69a100]

I may have mis-said about Houston being below sea level, but when a hurricane surge comes in, a lot of town is underwater, so consider it a major flood zone.

 

[Cranky]

I may have mis-said about Houston being below sea level, but when a hurricane surge comes in, a lot of town is underwater, so consider it a major flood zone.

Houston never sees storm surge but what happens is that draining a flat area doesn't happen real quick and when you get heavy rain in the range of more than 1" per hour, it tends to stack up. There were times when I got 1" in 30 minutes! I'm only 9 miles from Galveston Bay (Houston is probably 20 miles) and I've never had storm surge here at all. Too far inland that that. A buddy that lives real close to Galveston had a 10 foot surge during Ike and with this latest storm, there wasn't any surge to speak about but it did make high tide a bit higher. When you see all the news reports, it's from the worst low lying areas with poor drainage that got 40" of rain in 24 hours after days of moderate to heavy rain that was sporadic but saturated the ground. Also, most of the deaths you hear about are people who drive into high water and run off the roadway into a ditch or drive into a flooded underpass. There are also many areas that are somewhat low to bayous and people built in those areas and flood whenever an TS comes in. After all, Houston isn't called the Bayou City for nothing lol Most of our flooding was due to tropical storms and had very little wind....

 

[Cranky]

Here's a bit of history on Nawlands....

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/how-humans-sank-new-orleans/552323/

 

[flypaper]

you can place the blame on the insurance industry for this happening.
back in the day there was no such thing as the Ponzi scheme scam
known as flood insurance that opened the floodgates to building up the coast line.
from the 1930's to the 60's the coastline was sparsely populated because of this
after the 60's the building boom has not stopped
if you took flood insurance away
this would never happen..

 

[69a100]

Here's a bit of history on Nawlands....

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/how-humans-sank-new-orleans/552323/