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In reply to the discussion: American climate migration is underway [View all]lark
(23,600 posts)My sister is looking to move closer, but many of the open nice properties around here are close to the St. Johns river and may be unsafe in the future. She is staying away from those and of course avoiding any riverfront or close to the ocean property which limits her options. Houses on the St. Johns' in front of us have had the river move up a lot closer than it used to be and the creek behind houses on the ravine 2 miles from now now comes up much closer to the houses and in the worst 2 cases is now up near the actual houses. So glad we were smart enough to know to avoid water 40 years ago when we bought this house. We're at least 30 ft up from the river and across the road and have great drainage. We really thought about storms. The only thing we failed to consider enough was the huge oak trees on our property and all around us. We live in an old growth oak forest with at least 23 mature oaks on our 1/3 acre, and have to pull up and cut down small trees all the time or we'd have nothing but trees here.
We also moved to only one of 2 places on the coast in FL to not get hit with a hurricane in over 50 years. Jacksonville is on a big bay and the storms don't make that sharp turn and go on by and hit GA or usually NC. Tampa is the other - same reason, different coast.