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Motivated by reading an article about high tide flooding in Miami Beach, I recently spent some time looking at the coastline of Florida on Google Earth. It appe
by 2sk21 6y ago
Motivated by reading an article about high tide flooding in Miami Beach, I recently spent some time looking at the coastline of Florida on Google Earth. It appears that there is an enormous amount of property right at sea level on both coasts. Looks like the effects of sea level rise on such properties may be visible within the next decade or two.
- vkou 6y agoFortunately, we have titans of political thought, like Ben Shapiro, who remind us that there is nothing to worry about. After all, the folks who live on the coast can just sell their homes and move inland.
- mhh__ 6y ago"Wouldn't you just sell your house and move?" Thanks Ben
- DyslexicAtheist 6y ago"don't you think people aren't just going to sell their homes and move?" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-w-pdqwiBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-w-pdqwiBw
- coldtea 6y agoWho would do the buying? Fish that need a house?
- refurb 6y agoIt’s a smaller scale but when the cliffs in Pacifica,CA eroded enough to put some apartments at risk that’s exactly what they did. Tenants found new homes inland and the buildings were torn down before they fell into the ocean.
- noja 6y agoDid you use https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/ https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/ ?
- 2sk21 6y agoThats a very useful tool!
- crygin 6y agoI would very much recommend reading this essay, where a reporter goes to Miami, looks at property, and talks about this issue with real estate agents: https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/ https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/
- jacquesm 6y agoThat pump is so funny. Here are the Dutch ones: https://www.gemalen.nl/gemaal_detail.asp?gem_id=264 https://www.gemalen.nl/gemaal_detail.asp?gem_id=264 260 cubic meters per second. We may have fucked up our COVID-19 response but I sure hope that we have at least some level of preparation for the rising sea level. Though that likely is more of a stay of execution than a permanent solution.
- jswizzy 6y agoWhat fictional planet do you live on where Florida handled Covid wrong? The state is doing better than Florida and New York who are still locked down and are moving out of those state to Flordia.
- kergonath 6y agoI understood jacquesm was speaking from the Dutch point of view. Indeed, their polder engineering is better than their handling of the pandemic.
- joakleaf 6y agoJust for context, Covid-19 deaths per 1 million (yesterday): Florida: 1249 New York: 2265 New Jersey: 2430 California: 1058 USA: 1378 UK: 1549 Italy: 1479 Spain: 1279 France: 1182 Sweden: 1166 Netherlands: 822 Germany: 707 Denmark: 372 Norway: 104 Japan: 46 Singapore: 5 Florida could have done worse, but really has not done particular well WRT deaths per capita. In the US, Florida is ranked #26 worst (so somewhere in the middle, I guess). [1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
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- greggman3 6y agoOr you could look at Facebook and Google's HQs. Facebook is ~1 meter, Google is ~2
- jfim 6y agoFacebook and Google HQs could just relocate their headquarters somewhere else and eat a loss on the buildings; the value of either company isn't really tied to the value of the land there, unlike oceanfront hotels and condos adjacent to the beach.