Was Let’s Go Brandon concerned when he bought the beach house in 2017?
Biden’s Delaware vacation home faces ‘extreme’ flood risk as climate change leads to rising seas
As he’s traveled the country to visit victims of storms, wildfires, and floods, President Joe Biden has returned to a similar theme: Climate change is “everybody’s crisis,” as he declared last year after surveying flooded-out New York homes in the wake of Hurricane Ida.
Strange that CNN’s Casey Tolan failed to note how often Biden takes fossil fueled trips in military helicopters, giant convoys of low MPG SUVs, and jumbo jets with accompanying fighter jets
Biden doesn’t say it explicitly, but that “everybody” includes himself. The President’s vacation home near Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, is in the middle of a flood zone, and an analysis by a climate research group shows that the house is facing “extreme” flooding risk that is expected to get more severe over time.
If you’re buying a house in an established flood zone, that’s on you. It’s at the beach, for goodness sakes! A lot of Rehoboth Beach is 22 or higher above sea level. Though, Chump bought his in a very low lying area (you can see where at the CNN story, with a graphic). Now, where I grew up in NJ, yeah, that was low lying, as is the NC shoreline.
That means the nation’s homeowner-in-chief is among the millions of Americans who are facing climate-linked danger to their properties — and he has a big personal financial stake in the fight against the climate crisis.
Biden’s multi-million-dollar vacation home, which he has visited nearly a dozen times during his presidency, is in a quiet community tucked between a canal, the wetlands of a state park, and the Atlantic Ocean. Delaware has the lowest average elevation of any state, leaving neighborhoods like his in danger of being swamped during storms.
Then he shouldn’t have bought it in 2017
The proximity to water from multiple directions comes with a downside. The home has an extreme risk of flooding — 10 on a scale of 10 — according to the climate research group First Street Foundation, which has used environmental science and computer modeling to estimate flood risk for every property in the US.
There’s a 98% chance of flood water reaching Biden’s house within the next five years, First Street found. Less than 5% of properties nationwide have as high a flood risk.
The home is in FEMA’s Special Flood Hazard Area — the zone that would be inundated during a 100-year flood. A rarer 500-year flood would be likely to inundate the property with just over 10 feet of water, according to First Street’s national model. As climate change advances, the same flood would be expected to reach a depth of 11.4 feet in 30 years.
That has nothing to do with climate doom. Of course, the Warmists are over-exaggerating the extreme risk.
He should sell it at a bargain price then to escape the risk. That is, if he really believes there is any.
Strange? Is it so strange that after Obama had his use of Air Force 1 carefully scruti ized and costs frequently posted by Teach, for the next 4 Trump years which cost 400% more we heard , crickets
Before becoming POTUS Biden regularly traveled by much lower carbon footprint Amtrak’s Acela
President can only choose how often they travel the Secret Service makes all arangementa.
John,
Who gives a damn. Why limit carbon when it does little to nothing. Unless you have some cause information. But you have been here for years and nothing.
The difference is simple: President Trump wasn’t trying to force Other People to cut their carbon emissions; he wasn’t being a hypocrite about it, while the Democrats are.
I’m kind of surprised, though. After all of Joe Biden’s attempts to get into the White House, now that he’s there, he keeps trying to leave.
Meanwhile, back in the world of real data.. https://phzoe.com/2021/03/19/coastal-sealevel-rise/
Professor Phin should publish her work so others can critique her findings.
John…John……earth to John..are you there?
“President can only choose how often they travel the Secret Service makes all arangementa.”
Uh,no. Nada. Doesn’t work like that.
The President can decide when and HOW he wants to travel and the Secret Service makes it secure.
After all, he is the boss.
Recall that on Jan 6, then president trump tried to make the SS take him to the Capitol Building and they wouldn’t have it.
Where did ya hear that one, Rimjob?
Don’t forget: native Chicagoan Barack Hussein Obama bought a beach mansion in Martha’s Vinyard, on property less than 20 feet above sea level.
True. But he also had a plan to hold back the seas, so that made sense.
My sympathy is…
Well, it isn’t, actually.
I actually have little sympathy for someone who buys or builds a home in a well defined flood plain, particularly the ‘100 year flood plain’. There it is not a matter of IF you will get a flood, but WHEN it will happen, with a notable exception being seashores where actual floods don’t occur but storm tides and surges do happen. Essentially the same effect. The nomenclature of ‘100 year flood’ leads some to think that there will only be 1 storm in one hundred years that will produce a flood of that magnitude. Think more like 1 storm out of one hundred storms will do the job and they could be more frequent than every 100 years. The odds get better with the 500 and 1000 year flood plains.
Some areas prohibit or severely restrict building and development in defined flood plains. Lenders and insurance companies either won’t service such properties or require special flood insurance (spendy) to protect their exposures, particularly in the 100 year zones.
If you really want that beach house or condo, you’ll just have to pay and take the risk. You don’t really want an inland home that is subject to flooding. It’s simply not worth the risk.