[ SECRET POST #2650 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2650 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[(Anonymous)]

Re. 2), what I tend to wonder (particularly with respect to RECENT arrivals, as opposed to families who've been in a place for generations) is why the hell they built in a place so prone to fires or floods to start with. I can give someone a pass if great-great-great-grandpa settled down there hundreds of years before climate was well understood (or before it changed,) but these days if it's well-known that a place is going to get hammered every few years or in the near future, it's irresponsible to put a house there.

Also, I'm not sure whether victim blaming is a thing when it comes to natural disasters. You can't really blame nature for hurting people, it just does what it does and is completely blind to human laws or concepts of fairness or justice, and there is absolutely nothing we can ever do to change that. So the onus is on us humans to take whatever steps are possible and necessary to protect ourselves. If we don't, then yeah, that's really our own fault.

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[(Anonymous)]

Half of North America (everything west of the Rockies plus Texas, Oklahoma, and a large portion of Mexico) deals with regular brush or forest fires. That's just what happens in areas with little rainfall where summer temperatures regularly range around 35-45C. Everyone east of the Rockies deals with tornadoes and possibly flooding, and hurricanes on the coast. Should no one live in North America because there could be a natural disaster? Where in the world would they go where natural disasters DON'T happen?

Steps are taken to protect people. Buildings have to meet certain codes, in many states fireworks are banned, fire blocks are built, levees are built, hurricane evacuation routes and planned and marked along highways, people build storm shelters and make survival kits. But disasters happen fucking everywhere.

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

All of this is true, yet in my home state, after the hugely destructive floods of 2008, you heard of people rebuilding their town on the exact spot where it was when it was destroyed in the flood of 1993, and in every major flood before that. And we're not talking about a place like Iowa City, where it would be prohibitively difficult to relocate the whole place--we're talking about towns of maybe 200 people. And what really grinds my gears is that this is typically presented like it's some heroic enterprise--like "We're not gonna let Mother Nature tell us where we can build our town!"--instead of extreme stupidity.