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What is the RISKIEST Region in the US as the Climate Changes?
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Climate Change is increasing the frequency and severity of natural disasters all around the world. And in the United States, more and more people seem to be moving to the places that are projected to be most impacted by climate change, from hazards such as flooding, wildfire, storms, drought and extreme heat; and leaving the most climate-resilient areas. At first glance, this seems like a bizarre and paradoxical trend. So, for this episode of Weathered, we decided to see if we could get to the bottom of it.

We spoke to experts and sifted through lots of data about moving trends and shifting climate patterns to figure out what’s really going on here and what you can do to avoid moving into harm’s way.

Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.

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@philmanable

1 year ago

Moving to Florida to escape climate change is about the least thought out thing I’ve ever heard, changing out fires for hurricanes

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@velmapi7492

8 months ago

As a Minnesotan, my personal mantra I say to myself whenever I find myself outside in windchill -40 has been “we don’t have earthquakes, we don’t have hurricanes, we don’t have alligators.” I can deal with snow and cold knowing that the infrastructure of my city is built for exactly that.

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@MzJugni

8 months ago

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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@SoulfulMole

8 months ago

I moved to Maine in 2021 to get away from the inevitable worsening drought and exhaustion of water resources in my home state of Arizona. Glad I did! I'd say my assessment was accurate. Maine is also getting warmer so the winters are more mild currently then they ever were historically.

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@FoxVox

1 year ago

Frankly, the biggest risk here is to people who can’t afford to move and it’s a shame that we’re not talking about that more.

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@patrickfitzgerald2861

1 year ago

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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@French-Kiss24

3 months ago

I moved from Texas to South Carolina — but not to the coast. I’m 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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@jhodapp

3 months ago

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 it’s not because of the same reasons as ocean rising. The lake’s 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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@johnpierre1898

1 year ago

Doesn’t anybody notice that Hawaii and Alaska are part of the US but are rarely mentioned in programs like this about the US?

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@blakekuehn8899

1 year ago

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 world’s 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. Don’t regret it at all.

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@mellocello187

3 months ago

We moved from Chicago to Los Angeles 22 years ago for my husband’s job. For the first 5 years we didn’t even own a fan, and our central AC was wonky and we didn’t 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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@psea7612

8 months ago

Awesome job! I have been waiting for this kind of analysis for at least 10 years. I live in Philadelphia, PA, on the top of a Ridge line, and count myself very lucky given all the misery we are seeing. Thank you for doing this. Keep it coming!

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@evenif7431

1 year ago

Another thing to keep in mind when thinking about safest areas to live is the government of each state. Which states will invest in shoring up infrastructure to protect against climate change and which will just let key infrastructure fail even if it costs lives (ex. Texas)

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@jamesg7016

1 year ago

Considering younger generations are struggling to become home owners, I imagine the majority of those people moving to the riskier areas are less concerned about the 30 year climate projection.

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@nateward7120

8 months ago

I live in Tucson, and I’ve been wondering the last few weeks just how much longer people will be able to exist here. Plants, pets, A/C systems, etc. will make it a tough decision even before it makes it to lethal levels.

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@derrith1877

2 months ago

10 years ago we moved from Houston to the upper Midwest. Our risks are different and much less frequesnt.

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@hallamshire

1 year ago

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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@cindylewis3325

1 year ago

As a native Floridian. Our family moved to New England in 1992. Winters were tough -20, but today we hardly see that type of weather. We made our own work. I felt we made the right decision years ago.

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@Pthommie

8 months ago

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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@enatp6448

8 months ago

Would love it if, in a great presentation like this, you also include information about how to make a region more resilient by restoring some of the natural features of the landscape and other low tech means

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