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2025-06-08 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Scientists have revealed the unenviable future of dozens of US cities

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Posted by badanov 2025-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [368 views ] Top

#1 The Venice solution yea I'm looking forward to that, a bunch of cities I can travel by boat!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-06-08 02:39|| 2025-06-08 02:39|| Front Page Top

#2 The researchers named Texas as the fastest sinking territory in the United States.

#1 again!

Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-08 05:16|| 2025-06-08 05:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Extract oil and water and the land sinks. Or add extra weight, like New Orleans, and you get more sinking.

Posted by Bobby 2025-06-08 07:58|| 2025-06-08 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Wrote a collection of SCIFI short stories back in 2001-15.

One was called: 2036-GOOD TO THE LAST DROP." (c) 2005

It was about the Gulf of ~~Mexico~~ America, a few Mid-west states, and etc, starting to cave in. After having pumped out over 7.5 Million Barrels of oil a day for the last 50+ years, which created over 8 cubic miles of void along the US Coastline and Gulf areas.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-06-08 08:21|| 2025-06-08 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey TW, being trained as a geologist at Miami University, for the rest of you readers - the one in Oxford, OH not University of Miami in Florida, I know that the burbs just north of Cincy rest on the terminal moraine.

So not only is the city lower being the Ohio River Valley, the burbs sit on the end glacial deposits from the last ice age.

Posted by Warthog 2025-06-08 09:38|| 2025-06-08 09:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Had to laugh about Indianapolis being on the list. Not much threat of water intrusion unless you count White River and that’s barely a river.

Posted by Remoteman 2025-06-08 11:43|| 2025-06-08 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Gondola production is a wide open manufacturing field. You could build to stock for a hundred years or so.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-06-08 12:25|| 2025-06-08 12:25|| Front Page Top

#8 You have to wonder about DFW, what with it being at 600ft above sea level. Most of the problems they have there are due to developers building in the Trinity River bottoms.
Somebody needs to understand: There are no empty caverns that oil was pumped out of.
Oil comes out of sandstone or shale formations. That's why they have to fracture (frac) the rock, to allow it to flow. Which has been going on for a hundred years. It's not like a coal or salt mine with huge empty spaces that can collapse. Oil formations can settle, but nothing like what has happened in the Appalachians above old coal mines.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-06-08 13:09|| 2025-06-08 13:09|| Front Page Top

#9 burbs just north of Cincy rest on the terminal moraine.

My garden soil is heavy clay with a high level of gravel inclusions, Warthog. I found out why when trailing daughter #1 plumped for geology at the University of Cincinnati — the schools in the area have strong geology departments because there is so much to study. On road trips, her favourite professor would pull over at highway hill cuts, just to see what was there in the layers. Sound familiar? :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2025-06-08 16:26|| 2025-06-08 16:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Familiar indeed TW. Many a road trip to look at the strata. On another note, Cinci area is a world famous site for Ordovician fossils. Spent a lot of time in my youth cracking open the limestone rocks in creeks and have a nice collection of Trilobites..

Posted by Warthog 2025-06-08 16:43|| 2025-06-08 16:43|| Front Page Top

#11 They say that like it’s a bad thing…

Posted by Glenmore 2025-06-08 18:14|| 2025-06-08 18:14|| Front Page Top

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