Only thinking about it because of the film starting to come out of western North Carolina towns, because that effect is pretty obvious but probably hard to effectively project for future resilience changes

Yeah. All the GPU Bitcoin dorks should be trying to solve that computational issue. That would be world changing.

there is one of these for the Mississippi River and, guess what? they work.

Mississippi River Basin Model - Wikipedia

right, and that's two problems too. "how do you construct a model that looks like trust" vs "how do you use that model to effect policy changes" are also solved *entirely* different ways.