No jokes or videos today - this is serious stuff.......
I do DDD for a variety of reasons, but the top of the list is to give busy people some articles and tips that will help them in their daily lives. Quite a few of our readers live in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, which is why I very strongly recommend you take the time to read this article about the future of South Florida. It's by Jeff Goodell and it will be in July's Rolling Stone.
No matter how well read you are, you will not have seen this type of story in this coherent a form. The timing of sea level rise is unknown, and it sounds like it will be a couple of decades before there is serious consequences to SFla cities due to flooding - but it's coming. NOAA, a well respected and conservative institution, says there will be six feet of ocean rise within a hundred years. Other respected scientists believe it will be a lot quicker than that.
A lot of you, as well as Mary and I, have investments in South Florida real estate.....if you do you must read this. There may or may not be any discussion about it in the local media and if there is they will bring in "experts" to reassure their viewers/readers, but just for once get ahead of the crowd - read this story and draw your own conclusions. There is also a reasoned look at the future of the Everglades, the Turkey Point nuclear plant and the new $1billion tunnel to the Port of Miami.
And remember "follow the money?" The corporations, politicians, the rich banks and the smart money have [as the article says] $400 billion in assets/mortgages to protect and a huge vested interest in not letting the common folk [you] get upset about the types of issues in this article and take action - before they do. So all of the powerful will be talking in calm, moderated voices and making fun of this story.
You may choose to believe them - and if you do, good luck to you.......
It's a long article, and begins with a hypothetical "Hurricane Milo" in 2030, 17 years from now......
And if you think that's fantasy, note the picture below - downtown Miami after Hurricane Wilma in 2005, seven years ago.....
Goodbye, Miami
When the water receded after Hurricane Milo of 2030, there was a foot of sand covering the famous bow-tie floor in the lobby of the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach. A dead manatee floated in the pool where Elvis had once swum. Most of the damage occurred not from the hurricane's 175-mph winds, but from the 24-foot storm surge that overwhelmed the low-lying city. In South Beach, the old art-deco buildings were swept off their foundations. Mansions on Star Island were flooded up to their cut-glass doorknobs. A 17-mile stretch of Highway A1A that ran along the famous beaches up to Fort Lauderdale disappeared into the Atlantic. The storm knocked out the wastewater-treatment plant on Virginia Key, forcing the city to dump hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into Biscayne Bay. Tampons and condoms littered the beaches, and the stench of human excrement stoked fears of cholera. More than 800 people died, many of them swept away by the surging waters that submerged much of Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale; 13 people were killed in traffic accidents as they scrambled to escape the city after the news spread – falsely, it turned out – that one of the nuclear reactors at Turkey Point, an aging power plant 24 miles south of Miami, had been destroyed by the surge and sent a radioactive cloud over the city.
, Miami
By century's end, rising sea levels will turn the nation's urban fantasyland into an American Atlantis. But long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin
Miami after Hurricane Wilma in 2005.
Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images
When the water receded after Hurricane Milo of 2030, there was a foot of sand covering the famous bow-tie floor in the lobby of the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach. A dead manatee floated in the pool where Elvis had once swum. Most of the damage occurred not from the hurricane's 175-mph winds, but from the 24-foot storm surge that overwhelmed the low-lying city. In South Beach, the old art-deco buildings were swept off their foundations. Mansions on Star Island were flooded up to their cut-glass doorknobs. A 17-mile stretch of Highway A1A that ran along the famous beaches up to Fort Lauderdale disappeared into the Atlantic. The storm knocked out the wastewater-treatment plant on Virginia Key, forcing the city to dump hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into Biscayne Bay. Tampons and condoms littered the beaches, and the stench of human excrement stoked fears of cholera. More than 800 people died, many of them swept away by the surging waters that submerged much of Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale; 13 people were killed in traffic accidents as they scrambled to escape the city after the news spread – falsely, it turned out – that one of the nuclear reactors at Turkey Point, an aging power plant 24 miles south of Miami, had been destroyed by the surge and sent a radioactive cloud over the city.
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