Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Cleveland Ranked Best Place to Be When the World Ends
Posted by Kyle Swenson on Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:23 PM
As hurricanes shred the coast, tornadoes upend the prairie, and wildfires scorch the west, we here in Mother Nature’s bosom are left to ponder more pressing matters such as the source of our next beverage.
Yes, when it comes to meteorological calamity, the Forest City is as reliable as they come. And weather geeks are taking notice.
Jeff Opperman, a senior adviser at the Nature Conservancy, has completed a study ranking the top 50 U.S. cities in terms of resilience to climate change. And you, dear reader, are a winner yet again. In fact, the study’s top five cities read like a grand tour of the glorious Rust Belt: Cleveland, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis. Opperman attributes this to the region’s proximity to the Great Lakes and the low likelihood of hurricanes or flooding, at least till Antarctica melts.
And lest you doubt Mother Nature’s gift for vengeance, the study also found that the city most likely to perish in a fiery ball of apocalyptic misery is ... Miami. Ringless and doomed ain’t the way to go.
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The worst case senario predicted by the "experts" is a 20' rise in the oceans if all the ice at both caps melt. Considering there are locks along the St Lawrence Seaway, Niagra Falls is about a few hundred feet high, and areas like Brecksville are about 750 feet above sea level, no problem for most of the USA. The only losers will be those with ocean beachfront property. Sounds like a good time to dump the ocean beachfront property and buy some inland lakefront property.
Simple advice...if you are moving to an area along the coast line, just be sure the house is at least 30'-40' above sea level. Then, with luck and some additional global warming, one day you will be a beachfront property owner.
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See and they said living in Cleveland will get me no where lol Haha Bitchesssssssssss!
I've been saying this for years...
No hurricanes, volcanoes, floods, mudslides, tsunamis, droughts, or post championship riots.
