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@stonekettle@threads.net North Carolina could have accepted restrictions on building on slopes in the mountains and appropriate building standards. But the legislature bends over backwards for the real estate industry.
@paulc @stonekettle but yet.
I have a friend stuck down there that I finally heard from. He went down to visit his mom who’s in assisted living . So he was there before the warnings and stayed to be sure his mom would be OK.
And then, when he was with a group of ordinary people who were pulling other people who were on the wrong side of a flood across with a rope the ground collapsed under them. He’s got three fractured ribs and a broken wrist. 1/
@paulc @stonekettle he couldn’t get medical care for three days and says the whole area smells like dead things.
What I’m trying to say is that regular folks aren’t to blame. Zoning boards and developers might be responsible but who knew how bad that bad was going to get?
Nobody inland expected the new normal. Government said it was OK, builders said it was OK. When they built it was probably OK. Now it isn’t. /2
> What I’m trying to say is that regular folks aren’t to blame. Zoning boards and developers might be responsible but who knew how bad that bad was going to get?
Well the USGS certainly knew decades ago. The map here is almost perfectly accurate
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3070/fs2008-3070.pdf
@CatDragon @stonekettle@threads.net I believe the problems were more at the state level, but real estate powers are powerful at local levels. No one might have been expecting this hurricane but there were concerns. I am thinking more where NC state pushed to allow development on the coast.
Now that we’ve seen this disaster, will we see improvements in rebuilding or will those in power insist that this will never happen again?
@paulc @stonekettle they’ll deny.
This is an example of why I tell folks do your research, go to town meetings, read your zoning board minutes.
Yeah it’s not exciting stuff but it’s so important.
Everyone gets on about national politics when at the end of the day local politics are what actually impact your day to day life.