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Louisiana’s ‘business-friendly’ climate response: canceled home insurance plans (floodlightnews.org)
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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Are we going to evacuate everything west of the Rockies over forest fires and anywhere with a river due to more frequent floods and the plains due to tornados? Honestly, I feel like Louisiana might be the most prepared for climate change since we deal with it all the time (much like the Netherlands) whereas a minor storm can hit NYC and flood the subways.

I happen to be in Utah right now and there were two 100 year floods in the high desert in two weeks. It was about an inch of rain and it wrecked things. New creeks formed and got mud everywhere. In New Orleans, an inch of rain is a normal summer day and our houses are raised and natural and manmade drainage exists. The problem is climate change, not climate. The traumatic floods aren’t going to be in places that always flood. It’s going to be in places where what used to be snow slowly melting is now just water rushing down a mountain.

[–] blaine@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately, the facts don't agree with your feelings.

Louisiana leads the country for the number and percentage of homes that have had more than three flood claims filed on the same property.

https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/344607-the-same-houses-flood-every-year-and-we-keep-paying-for/

[–] card797@champserver.net 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah. I am just maintaining my flood insurance until the next one. I'll either raze the house or raise it. Flood plain Louisiana is just not sustainable. Gotta move to the Northshore or North of BR. Speaking for the SE anyway.