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View Poll Results: First City To FLood?
Houston 8 8.00%
New York City 10 10.00%
Tampa 3 3.00%
Miami 17 17.00%
New Orleans 75 75.00%
Jacksonville 3 3.00%
Other 8 8.00%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 100. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-12-2013, 05:25 AM
 
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This year is going to hurt here on the Eastern Seaboard (and the Gulf of Mexico) as hurricanes become far more common here:

Sort of happy Washington is one of those coastal cities that's coastal by metropolitan but far enough inland to stay safer.
Washington has a lower mean elevation than New York and if strorm came NW into the NC/VA bordee the storm surge up the Patomic would be large.
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Old 04-12-2013, 05:54 AM
 
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Washington has a lower mean elevation than New York and if strorm came NW into the NC/VA bordee the storm surge up the Patomic would be large.
That's also true.

Not as vulnerable as Delaware, New Jersey, Long Islands or other areas right on the coast but you're right the Potomac is still prone to severe flood according to history.
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Old 04-12-2013, 10:31 AM
 
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Yall do realize that New Orleans now is equip for floods now. They have the most expensive infrastructure for water there is now...
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Old 04-12-2013, 11:52 AM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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Yall do realize that New Orleans now is equip for floods now. They have the most expensive infrastructure for water there is now...
probably would have been cheaper to buy more busses
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Old 04-12-2013, 07:19 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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The posts for 2010 were interesting to read after what happened in the Northeast in 2011 and 2012.
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