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berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts)
Tue Sep 3, 2019, 12:48 PM Sep 2019

Grand Bahama Island is 530 sq miles

It has a max elevation of 40’.

More than half the island is under 20’ of Ocean.

This is storm surge. It will recede.

But the damage is done. More hurricanes are coming.

And this is just a glimpse of what will happen in less than 50 years to the US coast line once the arctic ice has fully melted and the permafrost is gone.

I feel like the guy from my youth that was walking the streets with the sign “The End Is Nigh!”

It really is.

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