The last two rainy seasons the rain has come back in a fierce way, espcially the winter of 2022 to 2023 but to a lesser degree the winter of 2023 and 2024.
one of the results of all this is major roads being washed out including Highway 1 in the Big Sur area which has been cut now for around 2 years since the Winter of 2022 and 2023 in several places which has been very hard on the businesses in the Big Sur area in many ways.
But, to a lesser degree the roads in the Santa Cruz Mountains were cut often as well. I remember seeing the videos of people trying to get across streams where their roads used to be before where they could not (possibly still) drive out in their cars which are now landlocked without roads to travel on.
The point I'm making is that often there is no funding for some roads to be repaired even here in California so people either have to build foot bridges or zip lines to cross rivers to get out from their homes in the Santa Cruz or Santa Lucia mountains of California.
And I think a couple of years from now likely many of the roads in North Carolina still won't be repaired because there won't be enough funding to do that no matter who is president at the time just like here in California as a very rich state we still often don't have the right funding or engineering to fix roads in precarious areas either when storms are too extreme.
I think you are going to see remote areas all over the world cut off more and more permanently by flooding and hurricanes and winds as such as we progress through this century.
It's just the times we live in where home insurance is impossible to get in many areas which prevents people from rebuilding there unless they are very rich to begin with or they are handy and build it back themselves.
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So, I'm thinking that it isn't inside big cities but in a more suburban environment where most people are eventually going to wind up through all these storms worldwide. However, having two stories or more in your dwelling can help with flooding as along as the flooding doesn't wash away your whole house with you in it.
Can you imagine feeling okay in your 2nd story somewhere with water all downstairs and all of a sudden your whole house starts to crumble or wash away from it's foundations?
These are the kinds of problems we likely are going to see more and more in places like Florida and in the Islands of the Caribbean. So, having mountains over 100 feet in elevation where you can run to in a tsunami or other hurricane event will mean the difference between life or death just like it did for many in the 2004 Tsunami in Banda aceh, Indonesia which killed around 200,000 people then:
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