Evacuating California foothills, to get out of the way of mud slides, because the brush fires a few years ago removed natural barriers. The emergency basins are filling up due to heavy rains.
We've had these discussions before, usually aimed at the US coasts with people and homes always at the doorstep of some disaster.
When poor people suffer disasters made worse by man-made intervention, like New Orleans or Haiti, people are quick to blame government, or shoddy building standards, or people being stupid.
But, apparently, if you're wealthy and have a million dollar home, all you have to do is buy enough insurance. Then you can keep re-building in the same spots, with "better engineering", and pay higher taxes to fund fire departments and emergency services. Or expect massive efforts to dredge, reroute, create levees, fortify shorelines.
Is this an illusion or delusion, and on whose part?