More like when you're building in a swamp and need to dig out a bunch of dirt to build up the land and put houses on it. I can't imagine flood insurance is cheap there.
Flood insurance is often also subsidized by other insurance purchasers who are not at flood risk! The insurer purchases insurance insurance in case they need to pay out more then they have, which gets added to their admin costs and distributed out to their customers.
I wonder if Trump and cronies will ever, in populist demands for lower premiums, brandish their climate denialism at insurance companies. Ordinarily, it's a safe bet that nothing is too ridiculous for Republicans, but insurers don't make compromises. They'll probably end up making up some eyewash together.
Seems like fresh water shouldn't be too bad. Just run pipes along all the roads. A lot of pipes to run, but not really much more than any other maze of residential neighborhoods. The pipes can be as long and convoluted as they need to be as long as you've got water towers supplying pressure.
Sewer will be more of a challenge, though, since it needs to be gravity fed and have a constant slope.
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TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 92d
looks like a circuitboard!
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 36 pts · 92d
For when you're min/maxing the amount of 'waterfront property' you can sell.
xthexder@l.sw0.com · 11 pts · 92d
More like when you're building in a swamp and need to dig out a bunch of dirt to build up the land and put houses on it. I can't imagine flood insurance is cheap there.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 21 pts · 92d
The flood insurance is taxpayer subsidized, of course. Because we all need to be responsible for the bad decisions of a few wealthy developers.
platypode@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 91d
Flood insurance is often also subsidized by other insurance purchasers who are not at flood risk! The insurer purchases insurance insurance in case they need to pay out more then they have, which gets added to their admin costs and distributed out to their customers.
Marthirial@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 92d
That's going to look so beautiful underwater in a few years.
Novocirab@feddit.org · 6 pts · 92d
In addition to the flood risk, the wind risk is rated very high, too.
Consequently, they have the third-highest insurance rates in the U.S.: Median premium-to-market value ratio = 2.2 %
https://eu.news-press.com/story/news/2025/09/12/cape-coral-fort-myers-homes-risks-flood-wind-climate-hurricanes-storms/86101392007
I wonder if Trump and cronies will ever, in populist demands for lower premiums, brandish their climate denialism at insurance companies. Ordinarily, it's a safe bet that nothing is too ridiculous for Republicans, but insurers don't make compromises. They'll probably end up making up some eyewash together.
dis_da_mor@anarchist.nexus · 15 pts · 92d
frunch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 92d
Roads?!! Where we're going we don't need roads!!!
(We need boats)
galacticworm@piefed.social · 14 pts · 92d
Looks like a ‘canary in the coal mine’ for global warming
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 7 pts · 92d
Wow, looks kind of like an Amsterdam / Venice / Hamburg situation!
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 13 pts · 92d
Except those places all have souls.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 92d
Just with more hurricanes.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 4 pts · 92d
Yeah, I and was thinking with rising sea levels... not a great combo.
tyler@programming.dev · 6 pts · 92d
I am pretty sure this city has the most navigable waterways of any city in the world. Even dwarfing Venice and Amsterdam.
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 92d
Yeah but they have problems providing fresh water and sewage to the residents.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 2 pts · 92d
Seems like fresh water shouldn't be too bad. Just run pipes along all the roads. A lot of pipes to run, but not really much more than any other maze of residential neighborhoods. The pipes can be as long and convoluted as they need to be as long as you've got water towers supplying pressure.
Sewer will be more of a challenge, though, since it needs to be gravity fed and have a constant slope.
socsa@piefed.social · 1 pts · 90d
Why tho?
tyler@programming.dev · 1 pts · 89d
Yeah great question
_cnt0@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 92d
GTA Cape Coral, when?
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 91d
I thought this was Cities Skylines at first.
yakko@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 92d
This tangle of roads looks like it is frequented by the mighty minotaur
nullify3112@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 92d
The demographics are very interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Coral,_Florida?wprov=sfti1 The Latino population has doubled in 10 years. Not as “white suburboisie” as I thought.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 2 pts · 90d
Wow, they created the perfect breeding grond for everything undesirable for humans. And florida people. Which ia kind of the same.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d
I’m getting Flatland vibes.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 90d
It's a giant debit card chip. Insert it into a giant POS card machine and take the city's money.