Big shiny new houses
The Times (NY) is doing a live update on the hurricane.
The storm is forecast to crawl inland, drenching a wide area with extremely heavy rains — 20, 30 or even 40 inches of rainfall are predicted in some spots on the Carolina coast. Places as far inland as Charlotte, about 150 miles from the coast, could receive more than 10 inches of rain. Learn more about why slow-moving hurricanes are so dangerous here.
It’s kind of hard to imagine 40 inches of rain.
President Trump on Thursday falsely accused Democrats of inflating the death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year, rejecting a government assessment that the storm had claimed nearly 3,000 lives. Read more about the president’s comments.
I’m so sick of “President” Trump abusing his office to lie about important facts.
North Carolina lawmakers are facing renewed criticism for a 2012 law that effectively ordered agencies to ignore an increasing rise in sea levels driven by climate change. The law helped allow rapid coastal development to continue.
I’m sure all the legislators who voted for that law are going to compensate the tragic fools who bought coastal property after that law was passed. Jk; of course they’re not.
Ocean water flows like river down Cape Hatteras Pier Drive and washes over NC 12 already depositing a layer of sand. pic.twitter.com/7HywTv24xz
— Jeff Hampton (@jeffhampton56) September 13, 2018
Anything that does not praise Trump is fake news. It goes without saying.
Actually, the feds usually compensate people for lost property, which actually is a bad thing, because it encourages people to continue building huge shiny houses on the coast, hurricane after hurricane after hurricane. (Except, of course, poor non-white people. They get shunted into dangerous trailers and left there until they finally move away and find something they can live in, or a family member to take them in).
Omar,
It’s big, really big, the biggest storm ever. Almost as big as Trump’s electoral college vote.
Also, it’s a very strong storm, unlike the weak storms we got when Obama was president.
MHGA!
Barrier islands are great, when they are properly viewed as barriers which protect the coastline from the worst of things like hurricane storm surges. That’s why they’re called “barrier islands.” Developing, building, and living on barrier islands, however, is monumentally stupid. Anyone who does so should be told up front that they do so entirely and fully at their own risk, with no help from anyone and no compensation for when their investment is inevitably destroyed by nature. The entirety of the Outer Banks should be parks and nature preserves, not vacation homes and beach side communities. Development should be limited to the coastline protected by the barrier islands, not the barrier islands themselves.
Building on barrier islands is as ridiculous and dangerous as building on flood plains. The clue’s in the name.