Posted on 03/02/2019 7:55:09 AM PST by simpson96
CHICAGO — No reason to panic yet, but Chicago is sinking.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says the city is at least four inches lower today than it was 100 years ago. Areas farther north are higher, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The slow motion seesaw effect is a long term result of Ice Age glaciers that melted eons ago. The experts compare this to squeezing a tube of toothpaste in the middle with one side going up and the other going down.
The change could eventually redefine flood plains.
"If you're tilting one direction, the water flows might change direction or water might accumulate in a way different than you expected in the past,” NOAA’s Chief Geodesist Daniel Roman told the Tribune. “That’s important for on-land and near-shore environments. You might get more water, but not where you want it.”
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Chicago is going to Hell ?
You winz the interwebz!
Really, I thought Chicago couldn’t go any lower.
Let me know when it is 4,000 feet lower.
It’s all caused by those mobster tunnels.
Rising sea levels? I wish that was sarcasm.
Or it’s all those dead bodies from drive bys weighing it down.
It’ll tip over!
is this sinking due to climate change somehow?
All those buildings.
Wouldn’t that shift of four inches cause the buildings to tilt too?
Good one!
Back when, they had to jack the Tremont House up, along with the rest of the downtown area, about 6 feet, to match the new street level. 500 screw jacks were used to slowly raise the whole building.
You could ride the El out to Maywood Park, and there were whole neighborhoods where the front yards were down in a hole, because the streets had been rebuilt at a new level.
Oh. At first I thought it said Chicago is stinking.
Well, $hit’s heavy.
At four inches every hundred years? LOL - could take a while to redefine flood plains...
Globull Shrinking. It happens to most 100 Year Old’s.
If true it is a legitimate example of the affects of global warming; just not man-made global warming.
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