A nationwide analysis of community-level floodplain development found that over two-million acres of floodplain were developed over the past two decades across the United States, with roughly half of all new floodplain housing built in Florida.
  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I work with floodplains for my job. Not in Florida, but still. Developers don’t care. Their solution is usually just bigger storm drains. It works just about as well as you’d expect when it actually floods.