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Community => Parks, Recreation, and the Environment => Topic started by: thelakelander on November 29, 2012, 12:01:44 AM

Title: Jacksonville Under Water: What Could Disappear
Post by: thelakelander on November 29, 2012, 12:01:44 AM
Maps show coastal and low-lying areas that would be permanently flooded, without engineered protection, in three levels of higher seas. Percentages are the portion of dry, habitable land within the city limits of places listed that would be permanently submerged.

(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/newsgraphics/2012/1119-coastal-flooding/jacksonville25.png)

More cities here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/24/opinion/sunday/what-could-disappear.html
Title: Re: Jacksonville Under Water: What Could Disappear
Post by: I-10east on November 29, 2012, 01:19:35 AM
Well, glass half full (or city half flooded) atleast our descendants far in the future will have 56% of Jax to work with.  ;)
Title: Re: Jacksonville Under Water: What Could Disappear
Post by: duvaldude08 on November 29, 2012, 07:55:27 AM
Ah hell who cares ill be dead by then. I'm waiting on December for the world to end  ;D
Title: Re: Jacksonville Under Water: What Could Disappear
Post by: Ocklawaha on November 29, 2012, 08:50:37 AM
We're all headed for Trail Ridge!
Title: Re: Jacksonville Under Water: What Could Disappear
Post by: spuwho on November 29, 2012, 08:51:15 AM
Interesting flood zones, but predicated on only a couple of hundred years of historical data.

What if we cut 100% of our airborne pollution and the seas still rise? What then?
Title: Re: Jacksonville Under Water: What Could Disappear
Post by: Bridges on November 29, 2012, 08:59:05 AM
Quote from: spuwho on November 29, 2012, 08:51:15 AMWhat if we cut 100% of our airborne pollution and the seas still rise? What then?

Great idea!  Let's try it! 

If it stops the seas, hooray!, crisis averted.  If it doesn't stop the seas, you can run around telling everyone you know that you predicted it, write a book about it, make a lot of money.  It is a win win for you.  I support you fully in this endeavor. 
Title: Re: Jacksonville Under Water: What Could Disappear
Post by: Timkin on December 04, 2012, 10:27:44 PM
I better get to work now on putting pontoons on the Annie Lytle :o
Title: Re: Jacksonville Under Water: What Could Disappear
Post by: jcjohnpaint on December 04, 2012, 10:34:32 PM
Well I guess I'm moving to the westside now!
Title: Re: Jacksonville Under Water: What Could Disappear
Post by: coredumped on December 04, 2012, 10:59:42 PM
Awesome, looks like I'll finally have waterfront property!
Title: Re: Jacksonville Under Water: What Could Disappear
Post by: Timkin on December 09, 2012, 10:48:28 PM
If the Mayan prediction is correct, it will not matter ;)
Title: Re: Jacksonville Under Water: What Could Disappear
Post by: Spence on December 10, 2012, 12:26:39 AM
imagining the ancients did not hit a bullseye,

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2011-dec-the-park-that-got-away

When I was a young boy, I had heard what I thought at the time to be tall tales of this massive park system which would have had extensive, permanent ramifications down through our time now.