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Related: About this forumWhy the Next Major Hurricane Could Devastate Miami
http://www.motherjones.com/miami-dodged-bullet-hurricane-andrewNote to self: The next time you take the Climate Change Tour of Miami with Nicole Hernandez Hammer, bring Dramamine.
I'm sitting in the back seat of a rental car as Hammer, the assistant director for research at the Florida Center for Environmental Studies, careens around the Magic City like Danica Patrick. One of her graduate students rides shotgun, navigating with her iPhone.
Our mission for the day is to survey parts of this city that will be flooded as climate change continues to drive up the level of the sea. Hammer, who studies the impacts of sea-level rise on infrastructure and communities, has kindly agreed to act as my tour guide and pilot. I'm just hoping I can keep my breakfast down.
Our first stop is Star Island, where celebs like Don Johnson, Gloria Estefan, and Shaquille O'Neal have owned homes over the years. For a cool $18-$35 million, the local realtors known as The Jills would be happy to set you up with your own walled-in villa where you can sit in your rooftop hot tub and listen to the waves lapping a little too close to your foundation.
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Why the Next Major Hurricane Could Devastate Miami (Original Post)
xchrom
Dec 2013
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Demeter
(85,373 posts)1. And this would be bad HOW?
Good morning, X!
I think Miami would be much better for a natural flush...aided with a Katrina-like response to break up the old Cuban gang and send them to some other random location...
But then, I'm tired of paying for the Bay of Pigs.
pscot
(21,024 posts)2. Surly this morning, aren't we.
Not that I disagree.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)3. Sinus infection
Not the gift a mother needs the week before Xmas.
And let's face it, if it weren't for Miami, we'd be in lots better shape on a number of fronts.
pscot
(21,024 posts)4. I've been sleeping with a vaporizer for the last week
Hope you're better soon.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)5. Thanks, you, too!
I'm told the disease involves coughing for a month...