Hurricanes don’t kill that many people (in the us) because homes are built fairly well due to regulations from prior hurricanes. I’m guessing Florida has rolled that back, but too soon to see major failures. So it’s very likely that a lot of poor people will lose their homes and they won’t have wind or flood insurance, but outside of catastrophic failures like Katrina hurricanes aren’t killers…and Katrina was a human problem. For example the deadliest hurricane in a while killed 150 people. If we didn’t do anything about Boeing we sure aren’t gonna worry about the weather.
US homes maybe more resistant in hurricane countries than elsewhere in the US, but storm intensities are on the rise, and conservatives are not known to be smart about resilience if it costs money “unnecessarily”.
Being rather unprepared will add to the damages. What do people on the coast do when the hurricane comes? They screw boards over their windows. This alone has probably saved a lot of lives. Hurricane strength winds and shards is a nasty mix.
It will get worse, with human lives getting more affected than before.
You aren’t thinking fourth dimensionally.
If we don’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.
No such thing as a cat 5 hurricane. That’s just gonna be called a “Windy boy”.
Those hit hardest probably won’t call it anything, them being dead.
Hurricanes don’t kill that many people (in the us) because homes are built fairly well due to regulations from prior hurricanes. I’m guessing Florida has rolled that back, but too soon to see major failures. So it’s very likely that a lot of poor people will lose their homes and they won’t have wind or flood insurance, but outside of catastrophic failures like Katrina hurricanes aren’t killers…and Katrina was a human problem. For example the deadliest hurricane in a while killed 150 people. If we didn’t do anything about Boeing we sure aren’t gonna worry about the weather.
US homes maybe more resistant in hurricane countries than elsewhere in the US, but storm intensities are on the rise, and conservatives are not known to be smart about resilience if it costs money “unnecessarily”.
Being rather unprepared will add to the damages. What do people on the coast do when the hurricane comes? They screw boards over their windows. This alone has probably saved a lot of lives. Hurricane strength winds and shards is a nasty mix.
It will get worse, with human lives getting more affected than before.