Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. Some of these articles are deceiving.

I've been a Floridian on and off for most of my life and spent a lot of time in Miami - I graduated HS in the 70's there and lived there in the early 60's and again from 74 through 87 or so.

Miami Beach IS NOT MIAMI!

Miami Beach is on a low lying barrier Island - technically the northern most key of the Florida Keys and there has been street flooding during high tides and full moons and storms etc. for DECADES. (actually, forever) Suggesting the two places are the same is like saying Manhattan and Long Island are the same, merely because they are both New York.

Now, I don't for one second think that global climate change is not a real phenomena and I know that Miami and Miami Beach will be in serious trouble should sea levels rise much more, but this sort of story is completely misleading.

The entirety of Dade county has terrible run-off problems when it rains because the whole area is only a few feet above sea level. When it rains, the storm drains are easily overwhelmed because their drainage angles are rather flat. Miami Beach is particularly vulnerable because the water just can not run off fast enough.

The pic in the OP - of Alton Road & 10th is on the Beach, NOT in Miami proper.