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Environment & Energy

phantom power

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3. nobody will plan for this

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Tue Nov 19, 2013, 10:27 AM

Nov 2013

Eventually, they'll start to get some storm surges that flatten everything for a mile in-land. Eventually, there won't be money to rebuild. More or less like what's happening to the Philippines right now. That will be the "plan."

We'll keep behaving the way we do until we can't, and then we won't.
--James Kunstler

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Corps Of Engineers Projects 2-Ft Sea Level Rise By 2060 - Dead Silence From Talahassee [View all] hatrack Nov 2013 OP

Maybe now is the time to open up a boatyard dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #1

Talahassee will be really dead silent once it's under water LiberalEsto Nov 2013 #2

nobody will plan for this phantom power Nov 2013 #3

And then they'll demand expanded federal flood and hurricane insurance mandates hatrack Nov 2013 #4

What is interesting... HooptieWagon Nov 2013 #5

Thanks for posting. Interesting topic and discussion. adirondacker Nov 2013 #6