Texas floods were a preview of what comes

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The country watched in the horror as the torrential rain wore Texas before this month, brush At least 135 people to his death. KERR County lost 107, including more than two tens of children in mystic field.

From afar, it would be easy, if it seems to be tempting, to think that alimulation as these could never happen to you. That the disaster is remote.

It’s not.

As a tragedy details are entered in focusing, factor list contributing is grown. Sudden brusks, driven by climate change. The lack of a complex notice system to notify the people that the gaealuous river has been rapidly. Ramping Building in the known areas of flooding, accompanied with incomplete information about what places may be at risk.

These are the same items that may trigger a type of catastrophe Kerr’s capture type in each state in the country. It is a reality that played numerous times already in the last few years, with floods in Vermont, Kntucky, Carolina of the north and elsewhere, leaving pain and billions of dollars in destruction.

“Kerr’s County is an extreme prevailor than Robert Frebur, Viciovial Energian and regional association in registration association.” People are in the risk, and there is more we have to do. “

The most obvious problem is to track the building in the right areas to the floods. Federal Emergency Management Agency, or Flemish, produces a soon available maps showing high risk locals. However, according to the last data from the no profit climate firm First Foundation of Strat7.9 million homes and other structures in a special dangerous danger, which designates a place with 1 per cent or largest chance to be flooded in each year.

Feal flood zone top 10

Source: Foundation of the first extract

In bus, a day of the properties of properties are located in premises area. In Florida, it’s 17 percent. Arkansas, new Mexico, and Nebraska are perhaps less exported members of the top 10, as it is New Jersey, which, with New York City, held the torrential rain and flooding that killed two people before this month.

Texas rank to the country, with about 800,000 properties, or about 6.5 percent of the state of the state, placed in a flood area. KERR County Officials have limited authority To keep people from building in these cassers, but even when the governments have the ability to prevent rescue buildings, they have no historically. Although a study found that some areas are finally start to curb the development of the lengthPeople keep buildings in the hazardous places.

“There is a innate drawn to the water we have, but we need to know where the bounds are,” said Freedudberg. “In places that are really dangerous, we need to work towards people out of damage.”

KERR County gets in a region known as cheerful flash, and At least four cabins in mystic field sat in extremely dangerously. Numerous others were in the path of a thunder of 100 years. When the christian summer fields for women in 2019, the The owners also built more cabs in the water path.