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KamaAina

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20. We had a shit-ton of these kinds of posts after Katrina.

Reply to MadHound (Reply #16)

Wed Oct 31, 2012, 04:56 PM

Oct 2012

As a former New Orleans resident, I resented them then, and I resent them now.

The official elevation of San Jose is 85 feet above sea level. Only the small village of Alviso, annexed by San Jose decades ago, is low-lying enough to be inundated. Similarly, it would take more than a three- or four-foot rise in sea level to turn San Francisco into "a group of small islands". Try 25 or 30 feet.

Lastly, I am in my late 40s. I doubt very much I shall be living anywhere by the end of the century.

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Is it time to start moving our coastal cities inland? [View all] MadHound Oct 2012 OP

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