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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 10:19:42 JST feld

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   • Paul Chernoff
   @CatDragon @paulc @stonekettle
   
   > What I’m trying to say is that regular folks aren’t to blame. Zoning boards and developers might be responsible but who knew how bad that bad was going to get?
   
   Well the USGS certainly knew decades ago. The map here is almost perfectly accurate
   
   https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3070/fs2008-3070.pdf
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     Catherine is not giving up. (catdragon@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 10:19:43 JST Catherine is not giving up.

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     • Paul Chernoff

     @paulc @stonekettle he couldn’t get medical care for three days and says the whole area smells like dead things.
     What I’m trying to say is that regular folks aren’t to blame. Zoning boards and developers might be responsible but who knew how bad that bad was going to get?
     Nobody inland expected the new normal. Government said it was OK, builders said it was OK. When they built it was probably OK. Now it isn’t. /2

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     Catherine is not giving up. (catdragon@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 10:19:44 JST Catherine is not giving up.

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     • Paul Chernoff

     @paulc @stonekettle but yet.
     I have a friend stuck down there that I finally heard from. He went down to visit his mom who’s in assisted living . So he was there before the warnings and stayed to be sure his mom would be OK.
     And then, when he was with a group of ordinary people who were pulling other people who were on the wrong side of a flood across with a rope the ground collapsed under them. He’s got three fractured ribs and a broken wrist. 1/

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     Paul Chernoff (paulc@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 10:19:46 JST Paul Chernoff

     @stonekettle North Carolina could have accepted restrictions on building on slopes in the mountains and appropriate building standards. But the legislature bends over backwards for the real estate industry.