Comments on: Flood Maps

Flood Maps

stbalbach — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:58:15 -0800

Sea levels are on the rise. Flood Maps mashes up NASA elevation data and Google Maps, and offers a zoomable localized visualization of the effects.

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:04:54 -0800

The flood map app needs some work, but the results are very interesting. More interesting, though, is the impact on all that fresh water on the dynamics of the atlantic ocean. Could get very chilly up in Northern Europe.

By: bukharin

bukharin — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:51:42 -0800

At 14m... half of Brooklyn is out... half of the Village... half of Harlem... in SF, half of the Mission, all of South of Market, the Marina.... Sacramento is sitting in the middle of a lake.. all of Provincetown, Cape Cod... the lower third of Lousiana... the lower fourth of the Florida panhandle... all of the Bahamas...

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:05:48 -0800

Lets hope the Army Corps of Engineers learns something about levee building from the Dutch.

By: twsf

twsf — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:07:11 -0800

All together now: "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I... feel... fiiiine..."

By: bukharin

bukharin — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:07:14 -0800

Yes, let's hope.

By: ereshkigal45

ereshkigal45 — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:15:04 -0800

Yes, let's hope. It's not a question of Corps not having the knowledge or talent to build on that scale. The Corps can only build projects that Congress authorizes, and for which Congress appropriates sufficient funds.

By: ereshkigal45

ereshkigal45 — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:16:02 -0800

Also, flagged as fantastic. I've been waiting for someone to develop this app.

By: bukharin

bukharin — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:25:24 -0800

The Corps can only build projects that Congress authorizes, and for which Congress appropriates sufficient funds. Bah. There are schools in Iraq to build.

By: bukharin

bukharin — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:25:48 -0800

I'll agree, too, that this is a wonderful post.

By: rollbiz

rollbiz — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:29:07 -0800

Looks like SimCity floods. Otherwise, it's very disconcerting to see that Boston is fucked if this ever comes to pass. Wonder how much water it will take for Worcester (Central MA) to become oceanfront property. I'd be interested to know, I'll set up my tourist trap accordingly.

By: mk1gti

mk1gti — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:31:09 -0800

hahahahah, I'm getting free lakefront property! Hahahahahah! ! ! Seriously, this is the suck. . . Even with the lakefront property. . .

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:57:02 -0800

My house is still dry at 14m, and the Sat Image should be the default. Much better that way. Cool find though.

By: numlok

numlok — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:59:42 -0800

Thanks for this, I've been looking for something like this for a few days now.

By: srs

srs — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:29:49 -0800

south florida will be fine. they'll just move it back to new jersey.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:37:27 -0800

Scientists forecast metre rise in sea levels this century Glacier National Park might soon need a new name.

By: Freaky

Freaky — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:30:31 -0800

My local nuclear power station is thoughtfully provided with its own island (see sat view). Unfortunately it doesn't look like the visitors center (north) is gonna fit.

By: pax digita

pax digita — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:32:34 -0800

Right this minute on NPR I'm listening to how there wasn't much winter to speak of in North America....

By: rough ashlar

rough ashlar — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:08:10 -0800

The rising water means: Chemical plants underwater Some nuke plants underwater Oil terminals under water Other not-water compatible infrastructure Oh, and a bunch of ppl will have to move.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:19:24 -0800

how there wasn't much winter to speak of in North America "Oh, just normal fluctuations in global tempertures," I'm sure they'll say. Which is may be, but I doubt it. This time last year I had 5ft. snowbanks in my backyard (Maine). This year there hasn't been even an inch of accumulation since February. It's nuts.

By: jfuller

jfuller — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:29:47 -0800

Wake me up when we get back to this point.

By: Danf

Danf — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:29:49 -0800

America's addicted to dry land. . .

By: rough ashlar

rough ashlar — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:55:46 -0800

America's addicted to dry land. . . posted by Danf at 7:29 AM PST on March 25 [!] More human than american...

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:00:01 -0800

This is the answer I've been looking for.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:00:33 -0800

jfuller - interesting, I guess that explains the great plains.

By: jfuller

jfuller — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:21:17 -0800

> Sea levels are on the rise. We've been there, done that. (N.b. where it says "drag mouse across image" it means left-click and hold and drag.) Observe that the entire middle east is under water. I hold out hope for a peaceful future.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:21:20 -0800

The San Francisco Chronicle had an interesting article on this yesterday, with a map showing the effects of a 20-foot rise in water level on San Francisco. Buh-bye Bay Bridge, looks like. (Most of downtown San Francisco is built on landfill, which is just dirt on top of wooden ships.)

By: oddman

oddman — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:44:12 -0800

So Miami doesn't sink but it becomes a peninsula. That is something I didn't expect. It will be sad to see the Everglades disappear.

By: trigonometry

trigonometry — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:50:49 -0800

b1tr0t: Actually, the Dutch are called upon regularly here in NJ/NY, because of all the landfills and other reclamation that's gone on in the past couple of centuries. I imagine that relationship will continue long after The Netherlands is safely ensconced in its domes under the rising North Sea.

By: jalexei

jalexei — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:55:00 -0800

Hmmm - mixed blessing - at 10 meters my office near the Boston waterfront is gone, but my home in Brookline becomes an oceanfront villa. I'll need some time to think about this....

By: PROD_TPSL

PROD_TPSL — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:41:08 -0800

A 7m rise does a nasty job on the peninsular state, but most of Jacksonville stays dry. Just for curiosities sake... if things really get out of hand, say at a cataclysmic 14m... every city from Brownsville TX, all the way around to Charleston, SC.... is just gone. Also at 14m... water will be lapping at the stairs in front of both the White House and the United States Capitol building.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:59:27 -0800

If only you could go up to 16 or so meters. Then I'd live on an island!

By: CountOfStGermain

CountOfStGermain — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:42:29 -0800

7m rise = (almost) all beaches will be gone

By: rough ashlar

rough ashlar — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:43:08 -0800

Observe that the entire middle east is under water. I hold out hope for a peaceful future. Shallow water drilling and the rise of the marsh Arabs say no.

By: jmanning

jmanning — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:51:10 -0800

as a citizen of the state of Missouri, which is next to the great state state of Kansas, "as bigoted as you think it is", I perceive a very low level of vigilance on the global warming issue. I think the junk science pertetrated by the big oil companies has a lot to do with this. I mean, if you watched Fox news, you'd think global warming was a complete fiction.

By: jb

jb — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:59:58 -0800

The area I study (the fens in England) would be mostly flooded if the sea levels rose even one metre. Well, actually, they do have floods every so often (last was 1947) when storms and heavy rainfall overwhelm their drainage systems. That said, this system is really useful for me to be able to pick out the relief of the area very vividly.