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Maimi is pretty cool. It's too bad they're going to be underwater and the city mostly uninhabitable in about 10 years.
by nextstep 13y ago
Maimi is pretty cool. It's too bad they're going to be underwater and the city mostly uninhabitable in about 10 years.
- yeukhon 13y agoIf 10 years is true, no one would be living there right now. People will already be evacuating. The number is probably around 30-50 years. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/29/climate-new-york-boston-miami-sea-level http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/29/climate-n...
- AJ007 13y agoSF could have a devastating earthquake at any moment and people are still there. Down in LA someone is trying to build a skyscraper on an active fault line: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hollywood-fault-millennium-20130802,0,2672188.story http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hollywood-fault-mill... A good portion of Manhattan will be under water if sea levels rise as well. Then we all know what happened to New Orleans. People seem to enjoy evacuating after the fact, not before.
- Crake 13y agoI've looked at the projections, and Manhattan's not nearly as screwed as Miami. Our foundation is mostly rock, I think, and a lot of this island has a relatively high elevation (as anyone who has walked up the giant hill to CCNY would happily tell you). Of course, the financial district will probably be toast, but things will just get pushed further into the bronx/inwood areas as is already happening now due to rent prices. I don't think anyone will care if we have to abandon Staten Island... Miami, on the other hand, is mostly flat and is sitting on a porous foundation, in addition to being right next to the everglades. There was a really interesting article recently on it: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620#ixzz2X0NGzxLY http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-mi...
- khuey 13y agoManhattan is also dense and rich enough to be worth trying to save.
- turar 13y agoProbably longer than 10, but yeah, the point stands. Insightful article about the issue: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-mi...
- auston 13y agoAuthor of the article here. Ironically - that picture from the RS article is right in front of the 1Sale.com office. I feel compelled to share that it does not look like that often (maybe 1-2 days a year during hurricane season)!