What is going on everyone? Can you swim well if you live in any of the cities on
this list you might want to think about moving buying a houseboat or at least
some water wings because the city you live in may be flooded in some areas in
the next 30 years on a regular basis and in the next 80 years some of these
cities could actually be 8 feet underwater and uninhabitable climate
change and rising sea levels are no longer in doubt it's math it's happening
what is up for debate is whether or not humans are causing it and if they are
how much are they contributing to the climate change I don't know I'm not a
scientist all I have like most of us is an opinion on the matter
the facts are if sea levels continue to rise at their current rate a bunch of
coastal cities within the next 30 years with more than 300,000 homes worth a
combined 117 billion dollars are likely to be at risk of chronic tidal flooding
now that's according to the UCS analysis and projections if you have any doubts
please look up Tangiers Island in the Chesapeake Bay it's part of Virginia
that is what these cities have to look forward to it's happening right now on
Tangiers Island that being said let's take a look at some of the cities that
maybe the next Atlantis my top 10 US cities we could lose to rising sea
levels number 10 Secaucus New Jersey besides sounding like the name of a
dirty movie you have a new jersey city called Secaucus it is stuck somewhere
between the Hudson River and the Hackensack River right next to Union
City you can also see MetLife Stadium from Secaucus
and if MetLife Stadium ever floods Jimmy Hoffa could wash up you never know with
such easy access to both major rivers flooding is not an uncommon thing for
the area already it can only get worse for Secaucus in the next 30 years it is
estimated that around three to four thousand residents or about 19% of the
population will have to relocate due to extreme flooding this one's in New
Jersey so really it's not much of a loss if you think about it
number nine Saint Helena Island South Carolina Saint Helena Island is a small
island of 63 square miles it sits midway between Charleston South
Carolina and Savannah Georgia with just under 6,000 residents as of the 2010
census this population estimate could be changing as the years go on because sea
levels are rising around the island at a rapid rate by 2030 it is estimated that
there five hundred homes will be destroyed or
severely affected by flooding here these Islanders got a practice run in flooding
in 2017 with hurricane Irma rising sea levels would be devastating for this
small community and would cost close to 700 million in damages it isn't gonna
take much sea level change to destroy the whole landscape of South Carolina's
coast for the most part this is only flat sea level land the only people
looking forward to this are probably landowners and real estate agents in
Columbia South Carolina they could be sitting on oceanfront property in 50 or
60 years number 8 keep his cane Florida Key Biscayne is
the second-most northern key right next to Virginia Key and just southeast of
Miami it's got Biscayne Bay between Miami and
Key Biscayne there's a lot going on on this key there are state parks beaches
wildlife tourist attractions and a bunch of other stuff and if predictions are
correct it'll all be gone by 2060 if the island floods about 50 percent of the
population will be affected middle rack up an estimated of 2.6 billion in
damages that's today's dollars 2060 that could be like a hundred billion who
knows now Miami is right there and should suffer the same fate but it won't
it is a major city and I'm sure if possible things like sea walls will be
built and it'll be all okay we hope could you imagine if Miami was
washed away we wouldn't be able to see the dolphin sucked during football
season every year this Key has some history that would get washed away
President Richard Nixon purchased the first of his three waterfront homes
forming a compound known as the Florida white house back in the day plans for
the Watergate break-in at the Democratic headquarters were discussed and pretty
much planned at the Key Biscayne Nixon compound and as the Watergate scandal
and folded Nixon spent more time in seclusion here Nixon visited Key
Biscayne more than 50 times between 1969 and 1973 maybe that's where the missing
tapes are Google that you'll understand it Nixon missing tapes it's a great
great bit of history number seven Freeport Texas Freeport is a tiny town
on the Gulf Coast that has the motto of where fun happens yeah okay whatever you
say dude I don't see it unless you consider watching oil and chemical
plants that surround Freeport spit clouds of god-knows-what into the air if
you consider that fun and yes fun happens and
report in the next 40 years the fun will come to an end it is believed that about
52% of livable land will be underwater by then and in 80 years basically 2100
you know the area will almost be completely underwater probably about 75%
of the livable land that they have today will be completely underwater now if you
look at this place from a satellite view here it is I don't know how much of a
loss it will be because look at all the industrial stuff around it I don't even
know why this community is here I'm sure the people that live there love it but
it just seems like a horrible place to live number six st. Pete Beach Florida
st. Pete Beach is on the barrier island just west of st. Petersburg Florida the
island is very small to begin with and will only be getting smaller as time
goes on by 2060 it's estimated that 50% of the livable land will be underwater
which would affect about 32% of the population and by 2090 st. Pete Beach
will be almost completely wiped off the map since about 99% of the livable land
they have today will be underwater by then I've been to this beach it was nice
what wasn't nice was old dudes and banana hammocks I just wanted to grab
those old dudes and start shaking them and yell you're not in your 20s and
you're not on a beach in Greece stop making these mothers cover their kids
eyes it's gross put a towel on Chester number five Galveston Texas Galveston is
home to just about 50,000 residents today with an increasing populations
grown every year Galveston is a major tourist attraction with art displays all
around the city beautiful beaches a historic pier with rides and it's all
within a forty one square mile stretch of land that happens to be an island
most of this island could be almost wiped away in 40 years should sea levels
continue to rise about 20% of the population would have to leave behind
their homes and relocate it's expected to see about 2.4 billion dollars in
damages if the sea level rises that's today's dollars again Galveston was the
site of one of my favorite weekend's I've ever had now it was in the nineties
and I've heard that it isn't as nice anymore I haven't been and you know a
couple decades but it was really nice when I was there it'd be sad to see it
go though I mean come on this is where Barry White was born
we have to save Galveston for Barry White's memory wait hold on
I mean if he's dead yep he's dead 2003 looks like he had a stroke
he died a couple years after the stroke or a year after stroke his scattered his
ashes on the beaches of California too bad they didn't spread him in the Gulf
of Mexico he could actually be coming back home sometime number four
Wilmington Island Georgia Wilmington Island is right outside of Savannah
Georgia and I've been here more than a few times they used to have a bar not
far from Wilmington Island that they actually named after my cousin's ex-wife
some of my army buddies and I would hit happy hour at the Sea Hag pub a few
times a month it was a good time I think it's been gone for some time now anyway
there are currently 15,000 residents living on Wilmington Island that will be
screwed when the tides start getting higher and higher 33% of the livable
land will be underwater by 2060 and by 2080 around 70% of the land will be
reclaimed by the ocean it's not a good place to be now there's another place
even closer to the ocean that doesn't have as many people called Tybee Island
and that one's right on the water so at least Wilmington Island is a little bit
in but Tybee will be gone before it is it doesn't have as many people but it's
in bad shape once the water starts coming up number
three Mount Pleasant South Carolina Mount
Pleasant is situated just north of Charleston with an increasing population
currently it's it's about 90,000 residents the first white settlers
arrived from England in July 6 1680 and in 1696 some new settlers arrived when
they got there each family was allotted several hundred acres in an area that
became known as Christchurch Paris Mount Pleasant is separated from Charleston by
the Cooper River for many years the town was populated largely on a seasonal
basis Charleston residents wealthy enough to afford a summer home across
the river from Charleston you know they that's where they bought
the population of Mount Pleasant was centered in the old village as they call
it this place has seen some flooding over the years so they're kind of used
to it Hurricane Hugo in 1989 in Matthew in 2016 and just recently Erma the last
major flooding medivac was a result of Hurricane herma in 2017 if this keeps up
forty years from now twenty percent of the total livable land will be under
water and in about 80 or 90 years over 50% of the livable land will be under
water they will definitely build a seawall around Charleston I'm not sure
about Mount Pleasant Charleston and well
we're Bill Murray lives and he'll probably live forever so you got to keep
Bill Murray safe right number two Atlantic City New Jersey Atlantic City
is one of the biggest tourist destinations on the East Coast the city
on the Atlantic has about 48,000 year-round residents and sees about 27
million visitors annually 27 million 27 million tourists walking up and down
that boardwalk with fanny packs on sad this boardwalk and everything else could
be wiped out however within the next several decades with increasing sea
levels it is expected by 2060 flooding will cause around 1.5 billion dollars in
damages and about 50% the livable land they have today will be completely
flooded and by 2095 almost 93 percent of the land in Atlantic City will be
completely underwater just the tips of buildings with far too many neon lights
and in the floodwaters casino chips with funnel cakes floating around the surface
it'll be a sad sight and number one all of the Lower Keys in Florida the Lower
Keys are the most at risk for total loss over the next several decades among the
residents it is expected that nearly 85% of them will have to relocate because
80% of the livable land they have today will be underwater by 2050 and 97% by 20
90 so things don't look good for the Lower Keys this could be extremely
costly and would affect the area by up to 2.5 billion dollars that's today's
money 20 30 years probably looking at five billion so if you're moving to the
keys make sure you don't take out like a big 30 year mortgage if the house won't
probably be there at the end of the mortgage so make sure you have
homeowners insurance at least with a lot of flood insurance water will be
creeping up during the next couple decades so yeah you're gonna need the
flood insurance the good news that in about 200 years people can go scuba
diving in reef that was formed around hundreds of sunken golf carts that's
great it's recycling golf carts does auto insurance cover golf carts I don't
know about that one sure I'm sure you can get golf cart insurance anyway
basically the lower keys are the most at risk and it will be devastated within
the next hundred years or less
alright so that is my list I hope you guys got some information out of it it's
not a very cheery outlook for a lot of these low-lying coastal cities and towns
or whatever or Islands so yeah hopefully things will change hopefully we can fix
the situation we're human beings we're all in this together we should be able
to come together and fix it anyway everybody have a great day don't forget
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