US coasts face a crisis as land sinks and seas rise
A slow-moving crisis of sinking land and rising water is playing out along America's coastline.
In the past 100 years, sea levels have climbed about a foot or more in some U.S. cities – 11 inches in New York and Boston, 12 in Charleston, S.C., 16 in Atlantic City, 18 in Norfolk, Virginia, and 25 in Galveston, Texas, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration..
Seas are forecast to rise from 8 inches to 23 inches along the nation’s coasts by 2050, with the higher increases along the northern Gulf Coast and mid-Atlantic. Every inch of additional water is expected to move farther inland making flood events worse and putting more properties at risk.
Meanwhile, in many coastal areas, the land is sinking, making flooding an even greater issue.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/us-coasts-face-a-crisis-as-land-sinks-and-seas-rise/ar-AA1FqVcE
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I'm happy to be living in Pittsburgh where we don't have any of that.
The last one I remember in Pittsburgh was in the mid-90s. We have a system of dams and levees that control most of it. You might be thinking of Johnstown, PA where they've had a few catastrophic floods.
The big rivers - the Monongahela, the Allegheny and the Ohio - are normally controlled by dams and levees. The last flood we had in Pittsburgh was in 1995 that I can remember. Floodwater came as high as the parking lot at Three Rivers Stadium, but then it receded. It happened on account of an ice jam on the Ohio River and everything backed up. But that was kind of a fluke.
