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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
This is an interesting point as well. To some extent building in these areas is gambling with Mother Nature. Much like building on the coast in FL, it’s not a matter of IF but WHEN. I get it, people want to live in beautiful places, I certainly don’t blame them. But there’s some inherent risk associated with living on the side of a mountain in an area prone to forest fires. 400 years ago there were probably some Indians standing around watching the same hills burn and not thinking anything of it. Much like prairie fires were a normal occurrence before we developed the Midwest and implemented more modern farming practices.
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This. People want to live in pretty areas, I get that. But building along side of pretty much any river, you will have a flood. The Mississippi River floods regularly. Large towns are flooded every few years. The people living along the beach will at some point face a hurricane and lose their home. People love to live in the in the forest, or heavily wooded lots. At some point there will be a fire.
Here in the plains of Oklahoma we have tornadoes. We set a record this year for over 150 state wide. Most were little wimpy F0 or F1, and did no damage. Big tornadoes are rare. The biggest baddest meanest monster tornado on Earth hit rural El Reno and it was 2.6 miles wide and moving at 80 MPH across the ground. It killed mostly tornado chasers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_El_Reno_tornado
It did little damage as it hit a wheat field and not a populated area.
The Moore tornado rolled through several neighborhoods and cleaned a house off of the concrete slab and left nothing but other peoples debris. With 321 MPH winds, and debris in the wind, nothing stands up to that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bridge_Creek%E2%80%93Moore_tornado
I never lost power just 20 miles away. It hit a narrow band of the ground, and just a few blocks away is civilization. Unlike in a flood.
Next California will get heavy rains and have massive mudslides. Lets all hope for just gentle rains.
We all are at mother nature's mercy. Pick your poison.