The clear signal here is climate change: It’s worsening wildfires, causing heavier rainfall and flooding, and supercharging hurricanes. In the 1980s, billion-dollar disasters happened on average every 82 days, according to the analysis, but over the last decade that window has tightened to just 16 days. In 2025, Americans endured one of these events every 10 days on average — an almost nonstop cavalcade of suffering.
US focused collapse don’t miss how the next civil war here has already begun it just looks different than the last one because the battles aren’t necessarily fought with armies, they are fought by denying victims of natural disaster crucial aid and letting humanitarian crisises build upon one another and blossom.
Farmers near where I live used to build farm houses on the hillsides around the valleys. Modern people just build right on the flood plain.
And nothing really has been done to prevent these disasters from happening again. I fully expect New Orleans to flood again, and California to catch fire. We will continue digging up wetlands and converting the land to condos and then wonder why they don’t hold up in hurricanes.
In the 1980s, billion-dollar disasters happened on average every 82 days, according to the analysis, but over the last decade that window has tightened to just 16 days. In 2025, Americans endured one of these events every 10 days on average — an almost nonstop cavalcade of suffering.
an almost nonstop cavalcade of suffering.
Not only is this a summary of my life, it was also my nickname in college.
Insurance industry is more profitable, cutting out high risk areas and raising prices for everyone else.
Rinse and repeat until everyone is in a high risk area I guess :)
This is a major driver of higher electric costs. Not only in replacement of transmission systems, but also repair labor.
No, I didn’t say largest, nor only.
How much of this dramatic change remains if one adjusts for inflation?
