As Americans have flocked south and west, more people have been exposed to the risk of hazards like hurricanes, floods, wildfires and dangerous heat.
  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    For rain and flooding specifically, new development can make it drastically worse without a huge amount of changes. It’s totally possible that a similar amount of rain 20-30 years ago wouldn’t have caused the same scale of damage, because the water wouldn’t have concentrated as fast.