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Originally Posted by jd3189
issues relating to climate change.
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It's not climate change, it's the...climate. It's the topography. We should have never let people build homes - by the millions - 10 feet above sea level on a peninsula that is vulnerable on all sides to tropical cyclones.
Yes, a house can be built of concrete to physically withstand flooding and high winds, but there is still enormous property damage from the ruining of furniture and appliances to the totaling of automobiles, public infrastructure, etc.
Again, tens of thousands of structures were seized and demolished in the 1900s by the Army Corps of Engineers all throughout the interior of the United States because they were situated on flood plains of the Mississippi, Ohio, and their tributaries. But Florida is like the rich girl for whom the rules don't apply, who gets to keep messing up and having her daddy buy her a new car every time.