The One About Miami Beach Flooding
Hey what else is new? Everything is flooding and going to be ruined within our lifetime, AHHHHHHH! If you are near any water you better back the fuck up in the next couple decades because all your shit will be wrecked. Just go. Get out of Florida. Good luck getting any beachfront property insured. One more confirmation in favor of my irrational phobia of owning property. But nobody is taking any advice from me or the New Yorker, because people are moving to Florida in fucking droves. More people moved to Fort Lauderdale in the last two years than to San Francisco: it grew more than LA or NYC, percentage-wise (although I’m sure it costs a fuck-ton less). But also lots of people are putting down lots of dough, like millions, on beachfront properties that are basically going to be little islands if it starts flooding even a little. The sea is not our friend you guys!
I guess the main thing at this point is the argument between those who are trying possibly futile damage control tactics, and those who think it’s no use. The optimism of the stupid versus the defeatism of the depressed. The mayor of MB and others are totally gung-ho about drainage systems and new-fangled resins and feel pretty positive about human potential to figure out some kind of climate control or engineering magic to fix it. Meanwhile, a ton of scientists are shaking their damn heads. So what are people to do? Just leave their homes? Looks like it. I mean, the whole concept of Florida was shady from day one.
Did you know: That Miami, West Miami, South Miami, and Miami Beach are all separate cities?
Also: Do any grammar queens know why it’s I.P.C.C. and NOAA [different font]? Is there a difference in how they print national and international organizations? Or is there some other rule?
Turns out there are multiple reports of the Repubs in office telling state employees that they can’t say “climate change” or even refer to sea-levels rising. Wow, I wish I could jump a century into the future and see how dumb we look in history textbooks.