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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSinking Cities - Miami - tonight on PBS
(check local listings, of course)
Discover how engineers and planners might protect Miami from rising seas and violent storms. As development booms, the city must utilize creative solutions to mitigate the challenges of stronger and more frequent hurricanes.
We saw New York and London - quite sobering.
https://www.pbs.org/show/sinking-cities/
malaise
(269,004 posts)Will watch
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)dameatball
(7,398 posts)Get the checkbook and bend over.
question everything
(47,479 posts)and I was pleasantly surprised that the rate did not go up, after all of last year's hurricanes and, of course, there were fires in CA last year, too. Keeping my fingers crossed but this is the nature of insurance, we all pay for the needs of the others.
What bugs me is that many houses in Houston were built again and again with FEMA keep paying.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)I doubt Miami will exist 50 years from now.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)question everything
(47,479 posts)Would be nice if his Taj Mahal would float away, with him on it waving his hat, they way it ended in Dr. Strangelove.
Oh, wake up. Nice dream though.