Before the floods, Asheville was called a ‘climate haven.’ Is anywhere safe? | As climate change leads to more severe hurricanes, mountain communities like Asheville, N.C., face growing flood danger.

silence7 · edit-2 9 days ago

Before the floods, Asheville was called a ‘climate haven.’ Is anywhere safe? | As climate change leads to more severe hurricanes, mountain communities like Asheville, N.C., face growing flood danger.

Hanrahan · edit-2 7 days ago

Anywhere “completely safe”? No! Are some places safer then others, of course. Off flood plains, not near rivers, (if you live behind a levee you will be flooded, eventually) protected from bushfires, away from SLR, out of the tropical zone, not hot, not dry.

It’s why I moved to Tasmania, on a small hill, 250m ASL on good soil, in a wet area, with zero bush fire risk.