LOL -- not laughing at Texans predicament -- and our own -- but the thoughts here that the insurance costs in Texas are linked to "inflation", and not to billion dollar disasters piling up end-to-end in the state. I wonder if they wrote this article before Houston last week. 🤔 #Texas#Insurance#disasters#climate
"No matter the season or location, ice, fire, wind and water are proving to be near-constant threats to life, land and Texans’ homes" -- and in THIS economy?!
(how can they fail to mention climate change - even once... to be this willfully dense is really stunning. even tho i should know better at this point)
@ai6yr that would definitely be smart. We have a leaky cellar we're going to improve in case we have an extended summer power outage. It stays nice and cool down there.
From @mattlanza (posted elsewhere, but he has an account here he does respond to occasionally)
"For those of you scoring at home, Houston has endured.
2015: Memorial Day flood
2016: Tax Day flood
2017: Harvey
2019: TS Imelda
2020: TS Beta
2021: Grid collapse due to freeze, Hurricane Nicholas
2022: Extreme summer heat/drought
2023: Hottest summer on record
2024: Derecho"
FEMA update on the tornado outbreak earlier today: "Over the weekend 127 tornado touchdowns, 149 wind reports, and 173 hail reports have been reported in Regions VI and VII. The severe weather threat has diminished greatly." #FEMA#tornado#disasters
"A new study from the University of Kansas found residents of one Seoul, South Korea, neighborhood have grown so accustomed to living through extreme climate events they have developed a "disaster subculture" ... Residents regularly expressed a sort of indifference to extreme heat and climate change, stating they had no options or even that "every day is a disaster."
@ai6yr
Context for people unfamiliar with wildfires: under severe weather conditions (hot, dry, and windy) it's possible for fires to spread at tens of miles per hour.
Which is to say, a fire could go from being "far outside of town" to "burning down houses on the edge of town" within half an hour.
Imagine living with this as your reality. You'd either learn to tune it out, or be a nervous wreck.
@katanova Or, you ignore it most of the year except when it's a Red Flag warning... which is what I do. Prepare, pay attention. Don't worry when it's not extreme wildfire conditions.
"Experts told me that the skyrocketing rates are caused by a combination of high inflation, especially in the prices of building supplies, and Texas’s recent series of natural disasters. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, between 1980 and 2023 Texas experienced an average of four natural disasters per year with damages in excess of $1 billion—droughts, floods, storms, tornadoes, wildfires, and winter storms. In recent years, such disasters have become much more frequent. Between 2019 and 2023 Texas suffered an average of eleven billion-dollar events each year, with sixteen in 2023 alone. " #climate#disasters#texas#insurance#TXwx
I mean tailings dams are a disaster waiting to happen (well, already happened*) everywhere, so not at all surprised they are in bad shape in former USSR states.