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daleanime
(17,796 posts)and I asked them about this. Their response was that they lived in a different part of the state so it didn't affect them.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)"Of the total of 4.2 million US citizens who live at an elevation of four feet or less, 2.4 million of them live in south Florida."
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)CanonRay
(14,101 posts)should be the Tea Party motto.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,232 posts)GULF SHORES, Ala. As homeowners around the nation protest skyrocketing premiums for federal flood insurance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has quietly moved the lines on its flood maps to benefit hundreds of oceanfront condo buildings and million-dollar homes, according to an analysis of federal records by NBC News.
The changes shift the financial burden for the next destructive hurricane, tsunami or tropical storm onto the neighbors of these wealthy beach-dwellers and ultimately onto all American taxpayers.
In more than 500 instances from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Miami Beach is a thriving economy with thousands of jobs. This hits everyone.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Ìn a few decades it'll be underwater. Along with pretty much everything north to the Everglades.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)Yeah, that always works.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)and investigative reporting... all people should be outraged...
TBF
(32,060 posts)Talk about missing the point ..
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)The only choice people of conscience are left with is to be a supporter of their efforts or to be someone who takes climate change seriously.
We see the evil staring us in the face. As clearly as slavery or a Third Reich. Just as then, the allure of money far outweighs most peoples puny convictions. And just as then, we can see the people who stood for more of the same and those who stood in the way.
mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)as proof of a coming cataclysm? This type of flooding is a new happening. This is proof hitting them in the face and to some, nothing is amiss? Just can't face the truth I guess. Well I'm sure the truth will become more apparent in the coming years.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)for others, it's out of sight out of mind. Republicans/deniers and the like IMO is really more of a mental problem. They are organically dysfunctional IMO. It is so sad they drag so many down with them. Often there are so many WTF's I have to remind myself we ARE in the 21st century, but I often think many of my countrymen are hundreds and hundreds of years behind.
dembotoz
(16,804 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)progressoid
(49,990 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)through Miami in the near future.
Then they can talk to Mother Nature who doesn't listen to fools.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...Everybody knows that! It's no big deal...
TYY
Uncle Joe
(58,362 posts)Thanks for the thread, trumad.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,368 posts)Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle?
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)I got out of Miami 25 years ago... Too hot and humid for me...
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)Tropical moisture has been causing flooding T-Storms
for days now. This isn't exactly something new.
I'm in Sarasota and we've been getting hit with these
storms for days...
When a storm drops 2 inches of rain in under an hour
you tend to get street flooding.
BKH70041
(961 posts)I grew up in Miami and I keep coming back and looking at this pic thinking "WTH?!? That doesn't look any different than what the streets always looked like during the rainy season when I was growing up there in the 60's and 70's." Someone else posted something similar a few weeks ago and it looked like typical Miami street flooding after a big rain.
BFD.
this is not caused by rain. This is happening on the sunniest days. This is ocean water.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)this is happening on bright sunny days. No rain in site.
Ocean water coming up through the drain pipes.
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)central, not the beaches and I can assure you a one meter rise in the gulf of mexico will raise hell with the condo/motel industry here.
this place is and has been built out for a long time, but for FEMA to change the flood maps to benefit the multi millionaires blows my mind.