You lost me at “climate change induced typhoon”.
Comparing an “Bay Area typhoon” (very hilly) to low and flat Houston with a direct hit is disingenuous at best.
Comparing an “Bay Area typhoon” (very hilly) to low and flat Houston with a direct hit is disingenuous at best.
It’s also extremely expensive to mitigate, maybe it should be done, but the GP was hand waving it all away. Commenter even “disagreed from experience” and then cited a totally different experience.
Fires, earthquakes, heavy rains causing mudslides that have actually killed people: yes. Some very localized flooding around the Russian River happens all the time. The Guadalupe River in San Jose flooded a few years ago. But storm surge from the ocean? nope, nope.
we don't have to prove the negative; you have to prove your claim.
Can you please take that courage over to the thread in question, where the cat seems to have gotten your tongue?
Some alternatives:
1. Engage in even more rhetoric (which is easily identified)
2. Pretend that you have not seen this comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954874
[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychology-normative-cogn...
Note:
- you and I are both Humans
- this conversation is "a situation"
You are now free to experience the many other surprising and delightful things that this life has to offer.
Yes, my bad.
But storm surge from the ocean? nope, nope.