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The mean height of the state of Florida is 2m above sea level. See https://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-future-is-now-for-sea-level-rise-in-south-florida/ h

• jjav 5y ago
  And as the article above points out, Florida ground is porous, so even before sea levels rise enough to flood the street level, it is flooding from below which impacts both underground infrastructure and fresh water supplies.
• scythe 5y ago
  No, it isn't. It's 100 feet, or 30 meters. See: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/us-states-with-the-lowest-average-elevations.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/us-states-with-the-lowes... https://vacationidea.com/florida/highest-elevation-in-florida.html https://vacationidea.com/florida/highest-elevation-in-florid... https://johnenglander.net/florida-is-not-going-underwater-anytime-soon/ https://johnenglander.net/florida-is-not-going-underwater-an... The house I grew up in nearly flooded during Hurricane Frances and the surveyor lists the elevation as eight feet. If Florida's mean elevation was six feet, huge swathes of the state would be underwater every hurricane. Wikipedia lists the average elevation of Miami as 6 feet, which might be where that guy got confused.