According to the article, the floodwall is mainly for catastrophic floods, and won’t safeguard against neighborhood floods that occur “just about every time it rains”. It will also be positioned mainly to protect areas with high property values, leaving out areas with lower property values that were historically affected by redlining.
“If your real estate is not worth a lot of money, then the Corps can’t protect you,” Young said. “It’s as if the only thing we value as Americans when we’re spending federal money is value. And that’s really unfortunate and really problematic.”
“The only thing we value is value”. The way they conflate “value” and “monetary price” is frustrating.
What a shitshow of a project. Nearby towns Virginia Beach and Newport News have significantly better flood management and city planning around the water levels. Yet Norfolk is the most populous. Lol. And this wall isn’t gonna solve existing problems. Lol. Bet a military contractor is gonna build it, too.
rest of the world – houses in flood zones built up on stilts
US – “Build a wall!”Thus solving the problem once and for all!!!
For areas where the geology allows seawalls, and there is a large developed area at low elevation, it’s sometimes possible to buy a century worth of use of that area. Can be worthwhile as an adaptation measure, even if it’s not a solution.
We’re going to be doing a lot of adapting thanks to the damage already done.
Literally why.
Just move.
Or better yet, don’t melt the ice caps.
Move how? Nobody wants to buy if they try to sell, so many people would not be able to afford to move.
But they can afford to build a huge fucking wall?
…you think the homeowners are paying for that?
I mean if your point is that the government should just pay out the homeowners instead of building a wall, I agree with you.
Yeah, the town should just be closed and returned to the wild.
We did it!
