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Date of upload: Jan 25, 2023 ^^
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As a Minnesotan, my personal mantra I say to myself whenever I find myself outside in windchill -40 has been âwe donât have earthquakes, we donât have hurricanes, we donât have alligators.â I can deal with snow and cold knowing that the infrastructure of my city is built for exactly that.
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Growing up in Salem, Oregon, I would get frustrated with the seemingly endless season of rain. I recall many 4th of July celebrations being rained out. Then we'd have a few good weeks of sunny weather, and by the time Labor Day rolled around, it was raining again. I even recall summers that didn't feel like summer at all. But now it's becoming more common to have summers with temperatures in the triple digits, months of barely any rain, and a smoky haze from all of the surrounding wildfires. Past me would never have predicted that I'd someday look at the ten-day forecast hoping for rain.
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I am a survivor of the Paradise, California Camp Fire of November 2018. Every adult living there back then should have known that the town was at high risk of burning completely down. It now has my vote for the highest risk community in the US, because they are rebuilding in EXACTLY the same place and the same way as before . . . we will never learn.
UPDATE: I want to thank all the people who expressed empathy for me and the other survivors/victims of this tragedy. I'd also like to thank those people who have added thoughtful comments about how we as a nation could make more sensible decisions regarding where and how we build our homes. For those people who found it necessary to express their neurotic or psychotic delusions and fantasies in a YouTube comments section, my advice is simple . . . get help.
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I moved from Texas to South Carolina â but not to the coast. Iâm in Greenville, which is near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Since we are on the backside of the mountains, we miss the tornadoes and wild weather that go up from the Gulf of Mexico. We are not near the coast, so we avoid the hurricane risk. It is also slightly cooler here.
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Chicago is looking really really good and one of the reasons I moved here 5 years ago. It also has incredible economic opportunities and is incredibly affordable with amenities not found in most other US cities. We keep building densely and robustly which has kept pricing pretty stable. Lake Michigan is a huge fresh water source that can also produce flooding, but itâs not because of the same reasons as ocean rising. The lakeâs total level is relatively controllable via the Chicago River and the huge lock that sits at the mouth of the river and the lake.
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My wife and I left Los Angeles two years ago and moved to Upper Peninsular Michigan primarily due to wildfires and dwindling water. We now live 3 blocks away from 3% of the worldâs freshwater supply. I grew up in TX, went to college in AZ and lived in LA for almost 25 years. Not even close to retirement age and we decided it was time to bail. Donât regret it at all.
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We moved from Chicago to Los Angeles 22 years ago for my husbandâs job. For the first 5 years we didnât even own a fan, and our central AC was wonky and we didnât need it anyway. We got a fan when I started having hot flashes. Then over the next few years we got another fan, and another, and a couple of years ago we had our HVAC replaced because we needed the AC. The change has been, no pun, palpable. We went from a joking 72 degrees year round to 90 in the summer and low of 40s in the winter. (We are 4 miles from the beach; the valley gets to 115).
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After my degree, my partner and I chose to move back to Michigan. It has a depressed economy and bleeds people every year... but every time I watch one of these videos, there is a bit of comfort that we are in a climate resilient area. We bought our house not thinking about the next 5 years, but the next 50.
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When I moved to northern Nevada the risk was officially 'low' because nobody considered that the smoke from California wildfires would cross the Sierras and then lodge in the Great Basin. 2019, 2020, and 2021 were horrible years in which I had to shelter in place and run an activated charcoal air purifier in order to breath without particulate matter impacting my health. Normally autumn is our best season but the smoke is now likely to ruin that. Yet I note the same experts here are ignoring the Canadian wildfires which blanket the Midwest & elsewhere with wildfire smoke. So I don't believe any area of earth is relatively safe from climate change -- we're all at risk.
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@philmanable
1 year ago
Moving to Florida to escape climate change is about the least thought out thing Iâve ever heard, changing out fires for hurricanes
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