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We asked six experts where the safest, or least risky, places will be to live in the United States as the climate changes and weather becomes more extreme. And the answer is pretty surprising. In this episode, we look at many hazards from temperature, storms, drought, farming, wildfire, polar vortex, hurricanes, sea-level rise, crop failure, extreme heat, and even economics. We look at the effect of climate on future migration patterns in the US and talk to someone who left New York City after Hurricane Sandy and identifies as a climate migrant. She ended up moving to the safest county in the United States from a weather and climate perspective. We’ll reveal where she went and why.
Here is a link to the ProPublica article that was very influential in our research of this episode: https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/ (scroll to the bottom of the article for a list of counties and the criteria used to rate them)
Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.
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I left Ma 9 yrs ago because,of the cold snowy winters. I moved to the upstate part of SC. My son has lived in Anderson for 18 yrs. You get seasonal weather, but no snow..If we have a,"cold"spell it only last for a week or two. Then it warms up to the 50's.once we got 4" of snow. Most don't know,what to do so they stay in until it melts. But I see transplants like myself just carrying on like normal. We get heat in the,summer but when its 95 here its 100+ in southeastern Ma. I never get flooded out, do lose power because of fallen trees, but not for long. You don't havezto leave Anderson as shopping is supreme. I am 20 miles from the Ga. border, 30 miles,from the NC mountains if you want to explore. I highly recommend this for a choice of retirement
Obama's beach house is the safest place.
Those eyelashes!
I used to live in the south but then I met a man who was in the water industry and we moved to Michigan specifically because of climate change and a better chance at access to fresh water well into the future.
I WILL BE ON THE SOUTHWEST COAST OF FLORIDA.
I WAS BORN HERE DECADES AGO. THE BEACHES ARE EXACTLY WHERE THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN.
SCARE TACTICS ARE NOT WORKING MRS AL GORE.
WE DONT BELIEVE ONE DAMN BIT OF THIS ORGANIZED BANKERS DRIVEL AND SCARE TACTICS.
I LIKE IT HOT. BRING IT ON.
Why are you running SCARED? I AM NOT. IF I GET WIPED OUT, WHO THE HELL CARES? I'M HEADING FOR THE PEARLY GATES REGARDLESS.
THE MORE GODLESS YOU ARE IS THE MORE YOU WORRY. STAY SQUARE WITH GOD AND STOP FRETTING OVER IT.
AND DONATE XERO TAX DOLLARS FOR A BOTTOMLESS HOLE.
If banks and leaders really thought the sea would rise, they wouldn’t lend billions in money across the globe to people for water front real estate. The most pricey real estate in the world, Is somehow not going down in value despite “the threat”.
I moved to the northern Midwest years ago because I love winter but not unrelenting heat. Our summers can include hot and humid days, although this summer has been cooler. Every place has its good and bad weather and good and bad years in terms of natural disasters. Climate migration is a real thing, but there are no absolutely safe places. The Northeast, mentioned here, is great, but this year it had some terrible flooding.
AI will kill far more of us than climate change ever will. We have way bigger problems…
And well before the average person is in a position to actually migrate to a more suitable climate, all the land will have been purchased by the ultra-rich and turned into 100+-acre compounds and tract home rental neighborhoods. Yay. 🙄
least risky is Lamoille county Vermont 6:25
Texas is the safest because climate change isn't real in red states 🙄 Duh.
There's no outrunning climate change . When we moved to Washing 24 years ago , home air conditioning was rare ,
heating was basic . Our first home w/ 1800 sq.ft .had one of those apartment electric furnaces .That was all before
there was a "wildfire season" .
We moved out of Helena, Montana because of the forest fire smoke in summer.
No place is safe now a days…
Welcome to the PNW.
whats the point of an insurance comp if they wont wanna pay for what ur insuring LOL
Best place to move to is a moving target. Safe today but not next year type thing. Generally anything close to the Canadian border, like 200 miles, seems safer over the long run. I am no expert
Have you checked on this area still this video was released? They have had three devastating flooding events since then, two exactly one year apart on July 10th in 2023 and 2024.
With the Earth going thru a warming phase there is little doubt that northern New England will become more inhabitable.
But right now it is still an ice box up there !!!
I live in Chattanooga, TN. One of the most beautiful cities in America. We sit in a massive valley, surrounded by 3 mountains. Lookout, Signal, and Elder. No tornados here. No hurricanes. Winters are mild. Summers rarely get above 90, and typically only a few days. Rainfall is perfect. Soil is nitrogen rich. The Tennessee river flows through the middle of our city. Housing is cheaper than other areas, but getting higher. Incomes are sligjtly less, but TVA is based here so electricity is cheaper. Were big enough to have almost everything, and Atlanta is 100 miles south if you want a big city or airport. Parks and Rec are astounding. Its an extremely clean city. Homelessness has gotten worse, hut not out of control. We are very diverse. We have a 3M plant. Volkswagen plant. Amazon hub. Employment is almost non existent. No one who moves here ever leaves. Kids generally come back after several years elsewhere. We are now around 300,000 people and growing. Vibrant art and music scene. Hunter Museum is world class. We have a Symphony and Opera, one of the few midsize cities that can still say that. And oh yeah, we still have a printed newspaper, The Chattanooga Times/Free Press, established by New York Times publisher Adolph S. Ochs. We have a double A minor league baseball team. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, part of the UT network. And we have one of the worlds longest pedestrian bridges over the Tennessee river, which leads to Coolidge park, which has a massive menagerie fountain and one of the worlds most beautiful carousels. Come see us!
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Living on the west coast in WA the main thing I worry about is wildfires and wildfire smoke. The fires come every summer but it's a toss of the dice as to whether the smoke gets blown our way. Currently the fires aren't a huge threat west of the Cascades but they've been getting closer year after year. The housing prices however from everyone moving here are as big of a threat to being able to stay as are the fires. It's hard for people who've been here their whole lives to afford to buy a home. It's a mixed fortune of being lucky to live in a place with relatively mild weather that's predicted to stay livable for a while, but also a curse in that leads to it being so overpopulated.