who also has a consulting business helping navigate the complexities of this industry. From now on for all you good folk who want a deep and independent analysis of specific products, sites, details, opinions, the site to visit is RentalScaleUp from Thibault Masson. As usual, readers beware, disinformation is everywhere. Some news channels are neutral in their approach and some have a clear bias in their presentation of content. This has resulted in an increasing raft of published information that covers significant and wide-ranging information that focuses on every aspect of the business some in very great detail. Politicians aren’t onto this yet for several reasons, including that rebuilding a natural drainage is expensive and not as sexy as building another dock.īut making drainages work and preparing for weather extremes is likely a better long-term investment for saving us money and sparing us heartbreak.My last newsletter followed previous editions in format, with several sections: “ Market Trends, Data, Tips & Tricks, Company Sales and Acquisitions, this month I have taken a new approach (again) and am focussed on what some may call the “Big Picture” but in particular “What’s Coming”Īs my colleagues and peers have noted the industry is red hot especially since Airbnb’s successful IPO almost a year ago, Hometogo’s IPO, Marriott’s Homes & Villas growth and the pending SPACs. Those changes will change the way we work, play and live, how we build our houses, how we manage our resources, what resources disappear and which will endure.Įither way, the changes are going to cost us a lot of money, from different clothing to changes in our homes and public buildings to damage mitigation. Our summer and winter weather are becoming more extreme. Then came the summer of 2020, the wettest on record in Southeast, and a few months later, the Haines landslides. The dry continued into the summer of 2019, the first extreme drought ever recorded in Southeast. Fish hatcheries and aquatic life suffered. panel said the devastating effects of climate change were coming sooner than their models had projected.įor Haines, that’s not just rain and snow.Īccording to the National Drought Mitigation Center, the winter of 2017-18 was the driest in Southeast Alaska in 40 years. Scientists for years said that climate change would bring more extreme weather. We know this from observing the world around us: Weather extremes are becoming more dramatic. What happens if they continue? Are our water and sewer lines deep enough to withstand an unprecedented duration of frigid temperatures? Will we all be buying block heaters for our cars? If long, deep freezes become more regular, should we start building our homes differently? And if those long, deep freezes start to be followed by longer rains and thaws, will we need a new system of drainage ditches and culverts to accommodate the new extremes? This winter’s big weather story isn’t snow but the reason for the snow: Below-freezing temperatures that have lasted for most of the past month. So far the borough has put bigger culverts along Young Road. Part of the problem, the engineers said, was that too many of the hillside’s natural drainages had been funneled down onto Young Road, too many trees had been cut down, too much of the topography had been altered without forethought. Flooding cost the town millions of dollars in 2005 and again in 2012, when the town-side flank of Mount Ripinsky buckled during a rain-on-snow storm similar to last December’s.Įngineers in 2013 recommended the Haines Borough spend at least $1.6 million re-evaluating the entire Young Road hillside drainage, including the Highland Estates and Skyline subdivisions. If the rains started again, would we be any more prepared than a year ago? We are surrounded by more snow that was on the ground one year ago when torrential rains on a heavy snow load caused a natural disaster that claimed two lives. When the question was put to Franklin he said, “No, build a lighthouse.” The wreck claimed the lives of many of the passengers aboard and distraught mourners asked that a chapel be built on the site in remembrance. There’s an apocryphal story about Ben Franklin, arguably the most pragmatic leader in colonial America, and a disastrous shipwreck.
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