Without thinking about the turn around in their political stands, Republican Governors have been wondering how to prepare for future climate disasters. How do we do that? Having a house on a river or a lake is a pretty place to live and enjoy life but frequent flooding costs the homeowner, the insurance companies, the state and federal governments, and of course all of us through high premiums and taxes.

            Now take that one home and multiply by a million more plus all the businesses and industries that used to flood every two or three decades or more. Now they are flooding much more often and more violently. We have to expect this is just a transition period to one with greater violence and more often. Hurricane Ida showed us a tropical storm can go from 65 to 140 miles per hour in a little more than a day with gusts over 175. When it got to the Northeast states it caused massive flooding costing billions and over sixty lives.

            New Orleans is mostly below the river and sea level. Who will pay for the levee that is going to be built around Charleston? Who is going to pay for the flood protection for New York City? Many other cities are doing their planning through building codes like Miami has. Its newest major building code is fourteen feet above the current street level. The streets are going to be raised in anticipation of rising seas and storm surges.

            Life on the Blue Marble is rapidly changing and all the governments need to prepare for heat, drought, floods and ecosystem destruction. At least five natural disasters costing over a billion have happened each year since 2002.