Posted on 02/07/2019 1:30:30 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Talk to Venice.
God flushing the toilet
You Two are My Heroes!
This will Warm the Planet!
Agree with you. (See my reply #76.) I was born in SF. Used to fish at the 3rd St drawbridge (now called McCovey Cove near the ballpark), as well as the piers along the Embarcadero. Water level is the same as it was in the 1950s. And it will be the same in another 70 years.
Some models estimate the sea will rise by 4.60 feet in the next 100 years -
“The lowest point in Louisiana is 8 feet below sea level in New Orleans.”
“The Netherlands is geographically a very low and flat country, with about 26% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level, and only about 50% of its land exceeding one metre above sea level.”
“Amsterdam is about 2 metres (6.6 feet) below sea level.”
“lowest point: Zuidplaspolder (Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel) 23 ft below sea level. “
Drove through there last week and marveled at all the new buildings and apartments....
Back in the early 1980s my wife liked shopping in the China Basin area around 2nd Street. It was a bunch of old dilapidated warehouses with steeply discounted clothing shops. I told her we should buy some property there, but she was against it. Property was dirt cheap. Well, the 1989 earthquake happened, the freeway from 6th Street through China Basin to Chinatown was torn down, and then the Giants ballpark was built. We would have made a fortune! Missed opportunity.
I worked in the area at One Market St and Embarcadero and frequented the new restaurants built around China Basin around the year 2000, also marveling at all the changes. Was there last week checking out the new Transbay Terminal and all the new skyscrapers south of Market, which used to be parking lots that I used to park my car at. Wow.
Pretty kewel area now.
Too bad the engineers are from Pisa, Italy.
They bought the metals from some little old Chinese lady on Canal Street, in Manhattan...
Who knows when that structure will be opened...
I’m thinking the US coasts can’t rise while the rest of the ocean stays the same. Someone is lying.
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