Poor people move where it’s cheaper to live. It’s cheaper to live where risk is higher. This is how risk is systematically offloaded onto the lower class. We build and live in these dangerous places, and we suffer all the loss and damage from those risks. The owner class takes all the profits and value from those places while investing little to nothing in them (too risky!)
Newsflash: with the increasing extreme weather events, everywhere is becoming a “disaster-prone area”.
Asheville, NC is 300 miles from the nearest coast and still got its shit rocked by a hurricane.
300 miles really isn’t very far for hurricanes to penetrate. And Asheville is a bowl in the mountains. So water runs to it, and drains out. It just can’t handle that much rain at once. It’s probably happened before, just long ago.
That said, I sat on my deck most of yesterday. It was the kind of weather we used to get all summer long 30 years ago. Now it only happens briefly in the spring and fall. Summers are becoming unbearable. Wildfires are the result.
How is Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota a high risk area? I’m seeing blue dots in that area.
I think Blue dot is migration to the area and red shading is high risk.
True. I miss typed that. There are blue and red dots in that area.
