It’s kind of a lot to live with a personal finance reporter like me. Everything is diversification and riskw1-coroapg, prudent investing and delayed gratification.
So it was not a surprise a few years ago when my wife started asking open-ended questions about what constitutes smart real estate decision-making as the planet warms and the weather gets more severe.
She was right to ask. When the federal government alters its flood maps, it can affect your property values. Insurance companies want out of entire areas, in one fell swoop.
We live in Brooklyn, and I’d long wondered what a storm like 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, except three times as strong, would do to our city. We’re not on a flood-prone block, and the apartment we own is pretty well protected from the elements. But could (another) storm of the century render the city unlivable for months?
And there was another conundrum: Like many Americans, we’ve been lucky enough to own our dwelling for a while, as housing prices have largely risen. As a result, our home equity is a decent chunk of our net worth. We have a lot riding on this one home of ours. Too much,89vip cassino maybe.
Everything is diversification and risk, remember?
But the first two days of a formal hearing by a Coast Guard panel into the disaster, which began Monday, have raised basic questions about that grim conclusion and taken detailed testimony that supports an unsensational finding.
“They took materials that came into my possession approximately 20 years ago and are unrelated to my work with the New York City Police Department,” Mr. Donlon said in a news release issued by the department shortly after 11 p.m. “This is not a department matter, and the department will not be commenting.”
But in the wake of my wife’s questions, it wasn’t immediately apparent where else we should live — if not tomorrow, then someday soon, in some magic, climate-safe landing spot.
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