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The country saw a terrible way when Texas fired earlier this month, and at least 135 people were killed. Only Kerr County lost 107, including more than two dozen children in Camp mystic.
From far, it would be easy, even greed, thinking that such a flood can never happen to you. That destruction is far away.
This is not.
Since the details of this tragedy have been focused, the list of co -operation factors has increased. Sudden rainfall of climate change. There is a lack of a comprehensive warning system to inform people that the Gawadalpe River is growing rapidly. In areas that are known for the floods, with an incomplete information, which places could endanger.
These are the same elements that can mobilize the County County type of catastrophe in every state of the country. This is a fact that has already gone several times in recent years, flooding in Vermont, Kentucky, North Carolina and elsewhere, which has resulted in grief and destruction of billions of dollars.
“What is happening everywhere is a very example of what is happening everywhere,” said Robert Friedonberg, vice president of the Regional Plan Association’s energy and environmental programs. “People are in danger because of this, and we need to work even more.”
The most obvious problem is that we continue to build in flooding areas. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, produces easily available maps that show high -risk locations. Nevertheless, according to the latest data from the First Street Foundation, the FEMA’s special flood risk area stands 7.9 million homes and other structures, which designates a location with a chance of 1 % or more in any year.
FEMA FLIED ZONE TUP 10
Source: First Street Foundation
In Louisiana, 23 % of the country’s leading properties are located in the FEMA flood zone. In Florida, it is about 17 %. Arkansas, New Mexico, and Nebraska are probably the less expected member of the Top 10, as is New Jersey, who, along with New York City, saw heavy rain and floods killing two people earlier this month.
Texas ranks seventh in the country, with about 800 800,000 properties, or about 6.5 percent of the state’s total, flooding. Kerr County officials have the limited authority to prevent people from building these areas, but even when governments have the ability to stop the dangerous projects of the building, they do not have historically. Although a study has found that in some areas, flood field growth is starting to stop, people are constructing in dangerous places.
“We have a natural water draw, but we need to know where the boundaries are,” said Friedonberg. “In places that are really dangerous, we need to work to get people out of the way.”
Kerr County is sitting in a region called Flash Flood Eli, and at least four cabins in the camp of Sufis were sitting in a highly effective “flood path”. Several others stood on the path of 100 -year floods. When the Christian Summer camp for girls was extended in 2019, the owners made more cabins on the water path.
