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Within the next week, will any disaster displace 10,000+ people from their homes? (Aug 13-20)
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resolved Aug 21
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Any disaster, of natural origins or otherwise.

There are 18 natural hazards included in the National Risk Index of FEMA: avalanche, coastal flooding, cold wave, drought, earthquake, hail, heat wave, tropical cyclone, ice storm, landslide, lightning, riverine flooding, strong wind, tornado, tsunami, volcanic activity, wildfire, winter weather. In addition there are also tornados and dust storms.

But I'm also counting many, many other hazards and sources such as war, coup, AI take-off, astronomical phenomena, nuclear meltdowns, and so forth. Very non-exhaustive list.

Exception: the fires in Maui triggered this YES last time and can't trigger it again.

Resolves YES if a disaster happens between question creation on July 28th and question close a week later and causes 10,000 or more residents to lose their homes, flee the area semi-permanently, or evacuate indefinitely in that same timeframe. Ongoing disasters, such as wars, require new isolatable events to take place to qualify.

Otherwise NO.

I expect there's a chance this question gets a bit dicey so, unlike my usual, I won't be creating starting limit orders or trading here.

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afaik nothing has qualified. I will be resolving NO unless I'm presented evidence otherwise

predictedYES

@Stralor Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said the armed forces would be deployed to help fight wildfires spreading in British Columbia, a western province. Around 30,000 people have been ordered to evacuate, and another 36,000 put on alert. Around 140,000 sq km of land has burned in Canada this fire season, which could stretch into autumn, owing to dry conditions.

@StanisawKokocinski it sounds like most of those evacuees are returning and aren't semi-permanently displaced. it's unclear how many aren't doing so or outright lost homes in these. So I'll resolve 50% because these are relevant and important, but they're not a perfect fit

Hilary can probably destroy 10k homes but I’m not sure if we get a good count.