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s4tch

Senior Member
Mar 23, 2015
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dude makes up stories in his senile head, presents them as facts. i bet zero countries kissed his ass and said SIR let's make a deal

3 deals in 3 months. they announced a deal with uk, a framework agreement with china and a reciprocal agreement with vietnam, right? and this asshole pretends that 200 countries are kissing his fat ass. what a delusional retard.

 

Seven

In bocca al lupo, Fabio.
Jun 25, 2003
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Houston is a perfect example of this: all the new land floods much more frequently. Reconciling this with insurance risks and climate changes means duping a lot of poor and clueless people to move into flood plains and then blame the NWS when they drown.

This is also why Utah Senator Mike Lee is so clueless about public land sale proposals. The dude's logic was to sell publicly owned lands in the forests to developers so they could build new homes in areas infested with wildlife, at the greatest risk of burning down due to fire danger, and with none of the infrastructure for water supplies, emergency services, and forest management to maintain a buffer from certain and far more frequent risks of burning to death.
I don't really know how it works in the US, but in some European countries when you buy property there has to be a document attached saying if it is in a zone that might flood. This doesn't mean you can't buy the property, but at the very least you're informed of the risks. Is that not the case in Texas?

As for flash floods in particular, they're sort of infamously hard to predict in a lot of cases. They tend to happen under a really precise set of unfortunate circumstances, which usually only become obvious at the very last minute. This was true for example with the 2021 floods in several parts of Europe. I'm sure @Bjerknes is much more informed on the matter, but it seems that it's just really difficult to get warnings across at the right time considering you do not want to be overzealous to the point of not being taken seriously anymore.
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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I don't really know how it works in the US, but in some European countries when you buy property there has to be a document attached saying if it is in a zone that might flood. This doesn't mean you can't buy the property, but at the very least you're informed of the risks. Is that not the case in Texas?

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Oh, they will have to list it for insurers. But it’s buyer beware.

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/harvey-maps

For followers of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, this is what “abundance” looks like.
 

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