flacaltenn
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And how high is that property above MSL? From the photo I'd guess a good 200 feet or more. So, tell me again why he should not have bought that property.
Because the GORON wants everyone else located near the shore to lose their insurance and VACATE -- but HE has 800 feet of god-given dispensation on his cliff-dwelling home.. It is a might hypocritical...
As most coastal states prepare plans to DE-POPULATE their coasts -- Al Gore has staked his claim..
Coastal cities and climate change: You?re going to get wet | The Economist
Last year Congress required the insurance subsidy that the federal government has long offered to householders who live and build on flood plains to be phased out. Such subsidies, in effect, pay people to live in dangerous places.
A regions preparedness depends in part on how seriously its leaders take climate change. Proactively minded cities have joined forces; New York and ten others are among the 61 cities around the world that, in partnership with the Clinton Climate Initiative, share plans and information to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate. In Florida, four of the southernmost countieswhich include the states three most-populous ones, accounting for more than a quarter of its total populationhave formed the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact. These counties share data, work together on legislation and seek funding in concert.
Unfortunately for the Goron -- the only way IN or OUT of Montecito is the PCHighway.. Which could disconnect at any one of dozens of places between Santa Barbara and Ventura -- leaving him as isolated as Tom Hanks with a Fed Ex pkg on an island..
Surely -- the local shared helipad is his escape plan...
Not entirely true, Highway 150 runs behind Montecito and Carpinteria and in a worst case scenario they could hit Ojai and then take Highway 33 up over the Coast Range and hit Lockwood Valley Road and take that to Frazier Park and then hit Interstate 5 just the other side of the Grapevine.
I led a couple of Summer Field programs in that area about 40 years ago.
Yeah -- that kind of safari is a real expedition. Bit far to go to get your Volvo serviced in Ventura.. Everytime I tried those coastal range backroads, I swore it would never happen again.. I can't imagine a round trip in a day to Santa Barbara or Ventura without camping out in the Nat. Forest on the way home..