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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
Totally fake. And Big Pavement strongarmed Miami Beach into paving their roads higher because they wanted to sell more asphalt.
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According to NOAA.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sl...?stnid=8723170
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Mean Sea Level Trend
8723170 Miami Beach, Florida
The mean sea level trend is 2.39 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence
interval of +/- 0.43 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from
1931 to 1981 which is equivalent to a change of 0.78 feet in 100 years.
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The trend of sea level rise is linear, not accelerating.
.0940 inches per year (approximately the thickness of 3 human hairs)
Perfectly consistent with coming out of a ice age.
Now for the picture...
Florida sits on a aquifer and is relatively flat. They have to raise the roadway to have positive drainage as putting drainage pipes below the surface of the existing grade would not drain the water away sufficiently enough since Miami's elevation is close to sea level.
Miami has also seen a resurgence in growth. Thus more hard landscape which is impermeable. Roads, driveways, roofs, parking lots, bike paths, tennis courts, basketball courts and even shuttle board all contribute to the overload on the drainage system.
Miami, New Orleans and other cities that were built and or continue to build near water and or in flood plains, are going to have these problems.
The answer is quiet simple...
Don't build in these problematic areas.
I "highly" doubt Denver has a drainage problem...
On a side note.
I hope they put up side rails so pedestrians don't fall off the sidewalk. I also wouldn't want to be sitting there at a table and have a distracted driver jump the curb and flatten me.
One can only imagine the smell of the exhaust from vehicles driving by while your trying to enjoy your food...
Not to mention the carbon monoxide (CO) gas poisoning you.
In ending.
Sometimes a picture doesn't tell the whole story...
Have a great day...
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