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Atlantis Effect? Rising Sea Level Worries Wash. Shoreline Areas

West News • September 5, 2007
Washington's low-lying capital city is a bit nervous in planning a new $38 million City Hall near the shoreline of Puget Sound, fearing that global warming and rising waters could submerge much of ...

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Subject: It's paradise!

Posted On: September 5, 2007, 4:06 pm CDT
Posted By: Anon
Comment:
So the town is built on mud flat and landfill? Is prone to flooding? (If memory serves right, something about the shape of the sound makes it:) potentially at risk of tsunami.

Sounds like heaven... let's all move there, build million dollar homes right on the shore, build them to 1800's code standards, and not insure them for floods. Of course, we'll build earthen dams and levees around our houses... we're not stupid!

I wonder how much it would cost to have an excavation company dig my house 60 feet below sea level.

Anyone want to come over for a cook-out?
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RE: It's paradise! Mary B.
Sep 6, 2007, 4:37 pm
RE: If you ever spent time in downtown Olympia..... El Squid
Sep 6, 2007, 12:24 pm
If you ever spent time in downtown Olympia..... Gill Fin
Sep 6, 2007, 11:48 am
RE: RE: It's paradise! Nobody Important
Sep 5, 2007, 7:26 pm
RE: It's paradise! clm mgr
Sep 5, 2007, 5:22 pm
It's paradise! Anon
Sep 5, 2007, 4:06 pm
RE: What are they worried about? clm mgr
Sep 5, 2007, 3:29 pm
What are they worried about? Enemy of political thugs
Sep 5, 2007, 1:29 pm
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