Posted: Dec 23, 2015 2:15 pm
Macdoc wrote:I don't miss the point at all and some areas hit by Sandy are not being rebuilt.
Cyclone and hurricane prone areas are already armored up. You can't build in Queensland for instance without have cyclone proof house and the northern areas have the flood control systems in place to deal with high intensity rainfall.
Mind latitudes do not.
A combination of rising sea levels ( the east coast of the US is rising faster than other areas ) and increasing storm intensity and that includes non-cyclonic storms plus higher building density on the coast means triaging some areas .....just as some whole towns in the Mississipi flood plain drainage basin were moved.
All around the world nations are deciding what to armor and what to abandon.
Some time in your life you should travel to the Southeastern US, particularly near the coasts. Or anywhere in Florida.
Armored up my ass.
The areas not rebuild after Sandy were not abandoned due to a strategic decision regarding hurricane safety response, but solely due to lack of flood insurance in areas not prone to flooding or due to limits on Federal emergency response funds withheld by stupid fucking politicians, mostly Republicans, who refused to grant in the Northeast what they regularly demand in the South.
Focusing on Hurricane Sandy as a model to guide hurricane preparedness decisions is strategically fucking stupid - efforts and planning and resources should go where the majority of the hurricanes will go, not to the rare outlying areas which are only hit by a major storm every 3-5 decades.