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I would very much recommend reading this essay, where a reporter goes to Miami, looks at property, and talks about this issue with real estate agents: https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/

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That pump is so funny.

Here are the Dutch ones:

https://www.gemalen.nl/gemaal_detail.asp?gem_id=264

260 cubic meters per second.

We may have fucked up our COVID-19 response but I sure hope that we have at least some level of preparation for the rising sea level. Though that likely is more of a stay of execution than a permanent solution.

What fictional planet do you live on where Florida handled Covid wrong? The state is doing better than Florida and New York who are still locked down and are moving out of those state to Flordia.

I understood jacquesm was speaking from the Dutch point of view. Indeed, their polder engineering is better than their handling of the pandemic.

Just for context, Covid-19 deaths per 1 million (yesterday):

Florida: 1249

New York: 2265 New Jersey: 2430 California: 1058

USA: 1378

UK: 1549 Italy: 1479 Spain: 1279 France: 1182 Sweden: 1166 Netherlands: 822 Germany: 707 Denmark: 372 Norway: 104 Japan: 46 Singapore: 5

Florida could have done worse, but really has not done particular well WRT deaths per capita. In the US, Florida is ranked #26 worst (so somewhere in the middle, I guess).

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

The commenter is from the Netherlands, not Florida. Also, I think you need to replace one instance of "Florida" in your comment with another state.

The real estate agents should embrace the concept of seasteading. Maybe by giving it a catchy name like adaptive aquadynamics, or something like that. It's no rocket science. Even if it were there is enough of that right around the corner.

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