THE PASSING OF THE SAN LUIS PASS Galveston will . . . survive! “‘The current predictions for sea level are that it will rise somewhere between two feet and three feet over the next century,’ said [Rice University Oceanographer and Geologist John] Anderson. ‘I think most scientists would agree from about Jamaica Beach west will probably disappear by the end of this century.'” [11 News]
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I don’t know how accurate it is, but http://flood.firetree.net/ is a interesting website showing what certain user-specified rises in the sea level would mean for the world.
Only another 15m to go and I’ll be less than 10 blocks from the ocean. Think of the property value appreciation :)
Of course by the end of the century, antigravity generators buried under the length of Galveston Island will keep the West end high and dry. Galveston itself will be beneath the Greater Co-Prosperity Dome (this replaces the earlier dome that covered only downtown–the fight with preservationists who will want to keep the older dome will be legendary). The new dome will keep the temperature will be kept a pleasant 74 degrees year-round, and life there will be completely idyllic (except for the radioactive wasteland of River Oaks with its continuing zombie problems, which were discussed in an earlier comment).
“The new dome will keep the temperature
will be kepta pleasant 74 degrees year-round”Fixed!