Asheville Flooding Events

[kmarc]

"If you are going to build, choose a long term local builder. If you are going to buy, ask who the builder was and have a reputable home inspection, incuding radon, for soil and for well water."

Wise advice, QC. When I buy, it most likely will be an existing structure on a bit of land. Those maps and info will be important. I believe in being cautious even when renting, too. Being flooded out is no picnic.

Now, maulotaur, not to minimize your concern about extreme scenarios, because they can and do happen. In fact I was reading the other day about a large scale thinning of the population in Europe some centuries back due to volcanic activity. And anyone who has seen footage of the tsunami in Japan may wish to give some serious thought to settling in low lying coastal areas. At least have a workable evacuation plan.

My brief reading on LaPalma indicates that, should the extreme scenario come about, the surge would be approximately sixteen miles inland, although probably more in Florida, due to the flatness of the landscape in most areas.

WNC would be safe. However, my concern is more with man-made disasters, like nationwide EBT card failure.

[motordavid]

maulotaur,
If still curious about a ~300 ft rise in sea level, permanent or tsunami generated, here's a graphic I found noodling around on sea level increase sites. Not pretty, and it would be tough times for those that survived and moved in and up...
GL, mD

[kmarc]

Pretty grim, if it happened all at once. OTOH, look at it this way: people in WNC who'd like to take a little trip to the beach now and then would have a much shorter trip.