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Originally Posted by Yuri
I don't think there are that many cities that will be more affected than Miami. It was built in swamp by the ocean. It's a very difficult situation as they don't have many feasible option to avoid the problems they're facing.
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There's nothing they can so sadly. When living on SoBe, I saw the whole street raising level project as a "solution" to flooding.
$200M became $600M+, the pumps last 12 years and the streets and businesses 2ft below grade still flood and get damaged. Imagine seeing 4 years of planning and construction, only to see it fail time and time again. Power outage? The generators don't function and the flooding gets worse.
Then you have the porous limestone and salt water seeping from underground onto the streets, into homes, into fresh water sources (this is the big one people often gloss over). Building foundations weakening due to the salt water, salt levels in the air and PH levels.
Septic tanks in Miami are failing and backing up...
Meanwhile people on forums (for the most part) are boasting Miami as some "utopia", city of the future.
Yet you factor what I said and witnessed, what others have said, climate change risks, how the city bends the knee for the ultra wealthy, how 80% of locals live paycheque to paycheque, how the city lacks transportation, walkability, mobility. The city is corrupt to the core and the fascination of crypto vs the wellbeing of citizens is the cherry on top. It's an inefficient and risky model to operate on, but sadly the future of America is what you see in Florida, paraphrasing Corben here.
At this point, who cares how many skyscrapers are proposed or U/C, when you can't even manage sunny day flooding or a simple rain storm