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Comments on: While I Was Out https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:59:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/comment-page-1/#comment-28839 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:59:19 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/#comment-28839 Ah, yes, let’s not deal with reality when we can outlaw it. I don’t remember King Knute being very successful when he ordered the tide not to come in.

People generally forget that Knute did that to prove to his court that there were limits on the power of government.

]]> By: Cookie Jill https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/comment-page-1/#comment-28836 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:27:11 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/#comment-28836 Santa Barbara is essentially 18-20 feet above sea level. There was a press “hell storm” over an art project called the LightBlueLine. It planned to paint a light blue line around town to show the “new coastline” from the projections of sea level rise. It was to encourage debate and thought in a civil matter.

The Developers and the local Newspaper went ballistic saying that it would destroy property values. They lawyered up. The project was pulled.

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/comment-page-1/#comment-28800 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:00:43 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/#comment-28800 The quartz sand that provides us with sugar white beaches over here also sucks up the water. Flooding isn’t a problem in the south county, but if you go north you run into the red clay and that doesn’t shed water at all.

In time I will probably go looking for a mountain somewhere.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/comment-page-1/#comment-28799 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:33:47 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/#comment-28799 “so I don’t relax until they are truly dissipated,” – Bryan

Sometimes I don’t relax until I am truly dissipated…

Seriously, two things occur to me.

One, I do not plan to be able to live out my life in Houston, even though we’re officially about 50 miles inland. That coastal prairie just isn’t much protection, and Harris County lies too low for comfort… and is getting worse.

Two, for us, the rain is usually the worst aspect. Look up “Tropical Storm Allison” for a case study of a storm that never had much wind, but stalled over the city, flooding more than I could ever have imagined.

Michael, hang in there; any Houstonian would sympathize with your plight, both the rain and the relentless humidity. Whig, whatever you do, don’t buy a house in Houston or (heaven forfend) Galveston.

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/comment-page-1/#comment-28789 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:21:21 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/#comment-28789 Whig, I wouldn’t buy any property along any coast that wasn’t 50 feet above sea level, which leaves out most of the Florida Peninsula. It’s not that the land will all be under water, it that you have to factor in 20 storm surge.

Too bad they can divert some of the water to California and Georgia, where it’s needed and wanted. we have been dealing with heat indexes of 108 and there’s no end in sight.

]]> By: Michael https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/comment-page-1/#comment-28787 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:00:10 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/#comment-28787 Almost as bad is the relentless humidity. By midday yesterday, stepping outside and doing anything–even just walking a couple hundred yards–meant you’d wind up feeling like you’d just stepped out of the shower–except not as fresh.

We got socked again with a pretty strong storm last night/this morning. Lots of wind and thunder, and quite a bit of rain, but not nearly as much as from the last one. The really heavy stuff went north into Wisconsin. But we’re still under the gun pretty much every day for the rest of the week at least.

]]> By: whig https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/comment-page-1/#comment-28783 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:52:48 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/21/while-i-was-out/#comment-28783 What parts of the United States will become unlivable with what amount of sea level rise?

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