Planning for Rising Seas | Your South Florida

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• JS

  @jshroud · 5 years ago

  🎓🎓  “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”  🎓🎓

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• EL

  @ellapresley8634 · 5 years ago

  I had thoughts of moving to Florida when I retired, but when I began to research living there, I immediately changed my mind.  I don't like "storms, tarnados, hurricanes, snakes, alligators, ants, and any flying insects, so I CHANGED MY MIND VERY QUICKLY!!!

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• PE

  @petuniaromania6294 · 6 years ago

  What if...what if this ancient coral reef of limestone we're built upon suddenly collapses into the ocean?  Can you imagine how many people would suddenly lose their lives?  The constant movement of the salt water is eating away at our foundation, the rock underneath us - Limestone.  It will collapse.

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• XE

  @xevious2501 · 5 years ago

  I love florida, dont matter to be about the political views B.S. i just love the state, its people in general and moreover the beauty , which comes with its location, its nature, its weather and its universal design and style.   And it saddens me that its all really coming to an end.  With sea level rise what currently is, can no longer be.  Enjoy these remaining years of living on the coast, or having access as such to the beaches, because its all either going to be gone, or man will be forced to change it, if possible.  Sea level rise will eliminate 90% of florida if nothting is done, more over if no major engineering projects dont begin NOW!!.  There is no stopping the switch thats been flipped on the polar caps.  we see it world wide , global warming rising ocean temps, killing great reefs, trillions of sea life,  and the water flowing from the caps is not simply a case of just melt water, but the sheer force of the water draining from the caps, is liken to high pressure water drilling.  the literal friction from the water flow is slicing away huge city size chunks of ice.  Their is no stopping this, especially while the planet remains too warm.   And its rate of metl increases overtime. place an ice cube on your counter top, how do you stop its melt?,  now take that example and apply it at a global scale.   Florida is more than vulnerable state with majority of its cities and residents living smack dab at sea level.  The very attraction to the state being its access to ocean.  the best man could do to save florida is to raise the land. much in the same order as those man made islands in Dubai.  but we're not talking about a few thousand yards of land.   we are talking about the very circumference of a state. to dredge from about 40 to 50 feet below sea level, and to build up to no less than 40 feet above sea level. A wall a massive Great dike wall of florida surrounding the state,   much like what was envisioned in blade runner 2049, holding the water off from los angeles.    and such a project would never see the light of day.  What does this mean.  florida's wildlife.. gone. native species, gone,  residents, gone,  businesses, gone,  foods. gone.  and with all thats gone so will demand drive prices up,  florida oranges, now sourced from brazil.   some nations will benefit in the short term, others will crumble.   but for whats to come.  chaos.  And you need to be preparing NOW.

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• TH

  @THE_HONEST_PROFESSIONAL · 5 years ago (edited)

  This is a huge issue. A lot of people flock to Florida to reap the benefits of the sunshine and lifestyle but forget that they are contributing to its demise.    Carbon emissions, burning of fossil fuels,  and lack of proper care for our climate is causing this.   When insurance companies refuse to underwrite certain parts of Florida then people will wake up and realize they are on their own.  Nobody wants to take action until the damage is already done.  Its not a cheap solution, and it is not a quick solution but we need to start today.  Not in 10-15 years when Miami is underwater.  We seen what happened with surfside. We  can say that it was a structural problem, but there was evidence of water in the basement, So I am pretty sure sea level rise has something to do with that condo collapse as well.

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• MI

  @michaeld5888 · 3 years ago (edited)

  It is always baffling in the UK seeing in the US housing built on beaches where the average winter storm here would take them out. The problem is when you do get a storm it is a real humdinger beyond anything we see so this long period between events lulls everyone in to a false sense of security. I suppose the problem is the natural short term view of business which is shorter than the hurricane hit period for any particular place. If that water is salt water the cars in these shots must be in a bad way in no time at all. I avoid getting my mild steel car anywhere near salt and even avoid using a tidal causeway near us.

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• HU

  @humanearthling4661 · 6 years ago

  Edgar Casey spoke and wrote about specific locations expected to experience earth changes  way back in the 30s and most people were conditioned to believe he was a nutty "fortune teller who only the "New Agers" believed.  I owned most of his books. What those in control of Politics did was to use their always ill gotten gains to line their pockets with specific land locations through the Years while keeping the populations apathetic and ignorant of everything we as a whole SHOULD HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF. Now they want to make place blame on Mankind for the changes and make us liable for the costly process of making these specific locations able to adjust to the inexorable changes, encouraging us to live in ever smaller homes and abodes while THEIR homes get larger and larger and to minimize our wants and needs, while their own greed rises to an all time in the history of Mankind HIGH.

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• HI

  @hilove5658 · 5 years ago

  That's timely solution worked for CHAMPLAIN TOWERS DIDNT IT....

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• RO

  @robbwinn139 · 5 years ago

  Well, all the High tower Condos being built on Miami Beach, that requires more fresh water, for live in residents;  this will cause higher tide rise in the salt sea level concentration  intrusion,  introducing salt water more inner onto  dry land eventually causing a break-down to inner & outer surrounding structures. And when the sea-level rises, due to climate changes causing flooding, the situation worsens as the foundation of the ground surface weakens, and sinks. In this situation, how can a 12-30 ft or even higher concrete-condo building stand, weighing tons of pounds; without crushing into a flat surface  when the ground has weakened ? I'm concerned about the sad tragedy incident that occurred at Champlain Towers South (Condo), 8777 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Fla thursday 6/24/2021 approximately 1:30 am in the morning to its residents where injuries and lost of lives occurred, & other people are still missing. Why are all those very expensive Condo's are steadily being built, near the coastal edges of South Florida where sea levels are rising causing depleting changes in the landscape surfaces, where the land is being washed away descending below the water surfaces ? Is this Engineering of all phases, is this American Greed, what is it when tall buildings are being structured, made on sinking sand & crashes, and they are lives to be saved ?  I pray for the families. the lives. that were injured, and lost. Dorothy

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• DO

  @docdurdin · 6 years ago

  I left my childhood home to escape the insanity. Keep pouring that concrete boys.  It's not climate change, it's greed and sprawl.

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• WO

  @worldamuckun5342 · 6 years ago

  The State of Florida Should be desalinating sea water instead of pulling water from the ground the amount of water used up and down the East and west coast even the gulf is more then what is predicted to go up and some of it can be pumped inland

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• GA

  @garybersin4133 · 5 years ago

  I am a UM graduate and concerned about the future of the. UM. I am currently living in Brazil &nbsp;but &nbsp;I worry about the future of U of M !<br>Thank you for your message!