I've been thinking about the Finger Lakes place was our climate haven. But as a pair of aging seniors with some health concerns, perhaps it's not ideal.
Before we get too committed, it's probably wise to review other options. Selling this place, makes many options available. We could leverage the sunk cost of the FLX house to our advantage, but it's not the only play.
You can download a pdf of a Cumulative Resilience Screening Index (CRSI) for Natural Hazards, and kind of survey the landscape. I was pleased to see Schulyer County in the top half of the 25 counties in EPA Region 2, while of the 25 highest-rated counties in EPA Region 4 (basically the southeast), only three of them were in Florida.
I'll have to study this document, because some of its analysis is unclear to me, and I wouldn't recommend anyone to jump to any conclusions. Region 4 has a 100% inland flooding risk, but only a 12% coastal flooding risk. It's unclear to me how that's reasonable.
Similarly, this is a 2020 update of a 2017 report. The Fort Lauderdale event (25" of rain in 24 hours without a hurricane) was in 2023. I don't know if the data set this analysis was based on includes these high-intensity/long duration rainfall events (HILDRE - I just made that up.) that are beginning to manifest all over the world. I'm guessing it doesn't and we're probably due for an update.
It's anyone's guess if one will be forthcoming with the new (old) administration coming into office.
Originally posted at Nice Marmot 15:33 Thursday, 14 November 2024