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Where we really need a wall: maybe the Federal government and the Army Corps of Engineers could provide the money and manpower to construct some protective walls and surge barriers, strengthen the bayou systems and dams, to protect Houston in the future.
Or maybe businesses and people could choose to relocate to places less prone to natural disasters instead of expecting the Federal Government to make operating/ living in swampland better, till the next big one.
Or maybe businesses and people could choose to relocate to places less prone to natural disasters instead of expecting the Federal Government to make operating/ living in swampland better, till the next big one.
You could say the same thing about living near the border then too - - relocate and don't build an impractical and ineffective wall at the border.
The voters via the electoral college voted for a Southern Wall between the US and Mexico by electing Donald Trump. While your suggestion is interesting, the wall you propose wasn't on the ballot in 2016.
Or maybe businesses and people could choose to relocate to places less prone to natural disasters instead of expecting the Federal Government to make operating/ living in swampland better, till the next big one.
You nailed it here. I've been saying this for years.
Or maybe businesses and people could choose to relocate to places less prone to natural disasters instead of expecting the Federal Government to make operating/ living in swampland better, till the next big one.
I'd hazard a guess that between flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, severe winter weather, droughts ---- much of the U.S. is prone to severe weather and also the risk of natural disasters.
For example, most of Florida is at sea level and at high risk of flooding, or being obliterated if sea levels continue to rise with global warming.
Also, there is no place in North America that could get over 50 inches of rain in a couple of days and not flood.
Where we really need a wall: maybe the Federal government and the Army Corps of Engineers could provide the money and manpower to construct some protective walls and surge barriers, strengthen the bayou systems and dams, to protect Houston in the future.
The dams and levees held just fine. This isn't like NOLA during Katrina, where all the levees that were decades old and sorely falling short had failed.
Houston may need to raise their damns another few feet, but this was a once in a millennia storm and took the record for dropping the most rain in the history of tracking such things. You simply can't build every city to withstand such rare storms.
If that is your fear, then people should move off the coasts where such storms will never land. AZ, NV, NM, CO, ID, all of the plains states, where you'll exchange hurricanes for tornadoes.
The weather is the weather.
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For example, most of Florida is at sea level and at high risk of flooding, or being obliterated if sea levels continue to rise with global warming.
Also, there is no place in North America that could get over 50 inches of rain in a couple of days and not flood.
You are exactly right. There is no area on earth that wouldn't flood with 50+ inches of rain in just 4 days.
The sea rise is just 1.8mm a year, so roughly 6 inches a century. It has been rising for more than 2000 years because we have been in an extended warm period. It'll flip the other way, just as it always has.
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The voters via the electoral college voted for a Southern Wall between the US and Mexico by electing Donald Trump. While your suggestion is interesting, the wall you propose wasn't on the ballot in 2016.
You mean they voted for a Southern Wall PAID FOR by Mexico, right? Have at it as soon as those Pesos start rolling in.
Or maybe businesses and people could choose to relocate to places less prone to natural disasters instead of expecting the Federal Government to make operating/ living in swampland better, till the next big one.
I agree, there are certain places that shouldn't be developed.
However, I will state this, in the Bahamas, they build their homes with nothing but Concrete Block, and they actually withstand only water damage...so maybe as people re-buid, they should visit alternatives.
I saw an ocean front home make it thru one of the worst hurricanes, with nothing but water damage and roof repairs....
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