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Old Posted Oct 3, 2022, 1:56 PM
galleyfox galleyfox is offline
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Originally Posted by bobdreamz View Post
Fair enough but why are you dismissing the impact on Miami-Dade county when ANDREW hit it's population was over 2 Million.
The political and economic ramifications of that storm went beyond where the Storm surge occurred.
Isn't what this thread is about?
My argument is mostly that wind damage is a temporary economic blow, and storm surge is a more-or-less permanent economic blow.

Like, if a wooden house collapses in 160 mph. Well, that sucks, but you can rebuild it as an anchored concrete block home, and there will be no further issues.

But for storm surge, there is no long-term mitigation besides relocation or building a massive flood barrier (and that’s pointless in a beach state). Most infrastructure and smaller buildings don’t survive storm surge w/o catastrophic deaths and expenses.

It’s not like Hurricane Ian was an unprecedented superstorm. It was a standard Cat 4, that came at the right angle and speed, and is extremely likely to repeat every 30-60 years.


I don’t agree that all of Florida is at risk or won’t grow, but coastal Florida needs a reality check that a lot of it is a ticking time bomb.
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