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Yeah it is surrounded by water, but I don't think it is sinking. It would get CRUSHED by a huge hurricane, but it's not like it's falling into the ocean right now or something.
New Orleans is going to win this poll because of Katrina. In reality Miami and New York are way more likely to go down from a direct hit.
@clean-polo, NOLA's flooding wasn't natural. It came from a man-made failure a day after the storm.
I say your wrong here Westbank. Your city is the only one that is BELOW sea level. Not so Miami and New York. In fact all 5 Boroughs have terrain hundreds of feet high.
Any city could be flooded by a large enough hurricane. Peterborough, New Hampshire was badly damaged by the New England Hurricane of 1938. It's very far inland.
I understand what your saying, but if I had to choose one city that I think is MOST prone to flooding (like this threads asks) then I'd have to pick NOLA. It's in a bowl that goes below sea level. It already had one of the worst floods in US history.
I thought that too, I would expect someone who actually lives there to be all too aware of the situation.
NOLA is a city that sits in a bowl, and a huge portion of the city is below sea level, and they're directly connected to the sea.
That doesn't mean it HAS to flood, but I would really think it's the most vulnerable. Miami and New York might be prone to flood, but at least in their cases the water would DRAIN back into the ocean. In NOLA you're screwed and it destroys everything as you have to more slowly pump it out. I mean just look at Katrina!
Any city could be flooded by a large enough hurricane. Peterborough, New Hampshire was badly damaged by the New England Hurricane of 1938. It's very far inland.
True, but hell when Tropical waves get done making damage here and travel north they are always flooding mid-atlantic, and northern states to some extent. I cant imagine what a full blown cat 4 Hurricane would do.
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