START WITH ASSESSING THE RISK TO YOUR OWN PROPERTY/COMMUNITY
Adam Smith, of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, spoke at the summit. He encouraged individual homebuyers, sellers, builders and community leaders to understand the risk to their individual properties and the communities they live in.
“To counter the growing risk of flooding there is a proliferation of public- and private-sector research tools that can help pinpoint current and projected future flood risk.
These tools are also at increasingly finer scales and many
are free to help inform decisions and investments moving forward,” he said.
“2021 was another year in a series of years where we had a high frequency, high cost, and large diversity of extreme events that affect people’s lives and livelihoods.
It is concerning because it hints that the high activity of recent years is becoming the new normal.
However, we can reduce our exposure and
vulnerabilities to some aspects of these extreme events with forethought and
planning,” Smith said.
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