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I’d imagine being prepared will be harder and harder to do each year as climate change means longer/worse hurricane seasons.

The reality is there will always be rain/winds/damage from hurricanes, but how is a place supposed to be ready for another Katrina every couple years now?

It sounds like a constant state of disaster-rebuilding-disaster-rebuilding…




Why? The pumps are not used a majority of the time. They are only needed when it rains.

They are usually not working, so maintenance should be easy.

...which it is because 96 of the 99 pumps are currently operational.


Crazy idea: instead of rebuilding, move. If this is happening every 15 years, maybe that's a message that we should be listening to. Somebody else said that if we evacuated every time a hurricane threatened, we'd be evacuated half the year. Sounds half right!


Also move away from: California - earthquakes, wildfires, draught, PNW - fires, complete snow in, barren eastern side of states, the entire gulf coast, the entire eastern seaboard, the City of New York, anywhere there's ever been an EF5 tornado (most of the 'midwest' i guess?) ...




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