New York is probably going to have to be forcibly depopulated within a couple of decades

Florida is in a more dire situation.

Oh. A flood. In a coastal area.

Shocking.

Welcome to Club de la Mort.

While low lying areas of the Southeast are obviously in peril, don’t underestimate the immense damage a tropical rain climate will do to New York with its aged and underground infrastructure. New York City is exactly the same elevation as Miami. The water has to go somewhere. They need water retention ponds like they have in Florida. Large areas of the city will have to be cleared.

Pussies

Why Syracuse?

It's the only other city in New Yord that the OP knows off the top of her head.

Of course, OP, of course because it's totally logical that they would take some of the most expensive property in the entire world and just let it go underwater. For sure they're going to do that. Yessireebob.e

Cripes. Ask the damn Dutch for some help

Hush your mouth, R8! That would require them to say the word DIKE.

You know they can't do that, Rhonda Santis is watching.

OP, that photo is disturbing. I’m surprised that glass hasn’t shattered from the pressure of the water against it.

Shiracushe.

Shuffle off to Buffalo.

Or op, a more likely solution is the update their fucking water and waste systems. A city like NYC needs to invest in more ways to transport their water.

Is that your house OP? Are you ok?

New York is in real trouble.

And the OG PBS series.

Right then, we're off to Jersey City, Bayonne and Asbury Park.

We can make it if we run.

This is a metaphor for a possible dystopic future: a rich people and some robots. Until the robots are enbued with the realization they are a new slave class. Then it's a Terminator World .

No, I am not normally this gloomy. But I do have these thoughts at the back of my head.

Correction: should have been "a few rich people".

Same r18

Is Syracuse nice?

[quote]Right then, we're off to Jersey City, Bayonne and Asbury Park.

I don't know about Bayonne, but Jersey City and Asbury had flooding yesterday too.

And don't get me started on Hoboken, where a dropped cup of coffee can cause a flood.

Nonsense. It was just a little drizzle.

R8 it’s the fault of the damn Dutch that New York is stuck here in the first place!

Rapid climate change is taking away any regret or anxiety I’ve had about remaining childless.

[quote]Everyone else will have to go to Syracuse.

Your empty threats mean NOTHING to me.

r2, you'd be wrong. the flooding occurs as concrete, and tons of it are placed onto of rivers, streams and marshlands.

it is brooklyn that is fact a dire future as it, like a lot of manhattan and queens is nearly all marshland originally

As mentioned the 842 million tons of building are pushing the island down BUT also big areas of the city are built on landfill. LaGuardia Airport for one and the area near the WTC for another, and such earth will naturally settle over time.

In a couple of decades, I’ll hopefully be retired and living upstate anyway.

Op, have you not heard of New Mannahatta?

Coming soon, after our deaths.

[quote] In a couple of decades, I’ll hopefully be retired and living upstate anyway.

If that's your plan you better start learning Spanish. By current trends In a couple of decades that will be the area's primary language.

R27, learn English and get back to us, you dolt.

It’s so lucky we live in such a politically stable country and can work together at all levels of the govt and across political parties to fix massive and expensive problems like this.

[quote] This is a metaphor for a possible dystopic future: a rich people and some robots.

I told y’all this two decades ago. “Oh no, the movie was too dark, I didn’t like it.”

You're moving upstate? Great! Please tell Fluffy and Fido I send them my love. They're on a farm up there, living their best lives.

Fine. Let them eat cake.

What is that thing? Water?

[quote] It’s so lucky we live in such a politically stable country and can work together at all levels of the govt and across political parties to fix massive and expensive problems like this.

The sarcasm duly noted, this is a large part of the problem that we will face as the challenges of climate change begin to overwhelm our resources. Even if we had a fully functioning government where everyone agreed that the climate crisis is real — which we don’t — we still face the daunting issue of where we allocate ever diminishing scarce funds and material. Floods here, fires there, hurricanes along the coast, drought in the heartland. Plus the additional migration crisis resulting from people affected by climate issues in countries around the globe where their governments are incapable of addressing the problems.

Sounds like the plot of a horror movie . . . .

I’ve always wished they could take NYC and move it somewhere with a nicer climate.

Yes NY in LA's location would be something magical r39. But instead we built a collection of strip malls there instead of a real city.

Read it and weep

R40. What do you the think the far east and west avenues in Manhattan are if not strip malls? Have you never stepped foot in any other borough? Come on…

New York could have made a pretty good start on flood control with the money spent putting hundreds of thousands illegal invaders into free housing with free food, free phones, free pocket money, free legal assistance, free schooling, and free medical care.