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MadHound

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8. You can build/keep the port infrastructure, yet still move the rest of the city
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 03:27 PM
Oct 2012

But frankly, we don't have the technological capability to build the infrastructure needed to protect our coastal cities from what is coming. Most knowledgeable folks are projecting that our coastal cities are going to be inundated, underwater. Florida is going to be a small sliver of itself. A three to four foot rise means that San Francisco becomes a group of small islands, San Diego goes under, and Long Island vanishes. That's just from the rise of ocean levels, not the damage that the storm damage that will occur.

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What about our shipping industry? We can't move that inland ahead of time, and we need workers to GreenPartyVoter Oct 2012 #1
Move everything to Atlanta. dawg Oct 2012 #2
The cost of moving cities is even higher than repairing them. mattclearing Oct 2012 #3
We need shipping ports for the economy... steelmania75 Oct 2012 #4
You can build/keep the port infrastructure, yet still move the rest of the city MadHound Oct 2012 #8
true dat grasswire Oct 2012 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author ChisolmTrailDem Oct 2012 #9
What is insurance like on the coast? I ChisolmTrailDem Oct 2012 #5
Here in New Orleans MountainLaurel Oct 2012 #6
I propose a new federal law. mysuzuki2 Oct 2012 #7
Bring in engineers from The Netherlands and put people to work... ChisolmTrailDem Oct 2012 #10
Except those barriers and gates won't do you much good MadHound Oct 2012 #12
Well, I wasn't thinking entire coastine. But for New York... ChisolmTrailDem Oct 2012 #13
But that's the thing, you have to think of the entire US coast, MadHound Oct 2012 #14
Wow! A post from 2005! KamaAina Oct 2012 #15
I'm not sure what you mean by your subject line, MadHound Oct 2012 #16
Well, we could move them to West Virginia.... blue neen Oct 2012 #18
We had a shit-ton of these kinds of posts after Katrina. KamaAina Oct 2012 #20
Maybe we should pay attention to global warming TBF Oct 2012 #17
There is no such thing as a city Spike89 Oct 2012 #19
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