Oceans are rising, so what's the elevation of your home?

[kenny]

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130819-the-rising-threat-from-the-oceans/1
This BBC story says the sea level is currently rising 3.5 mm per year, which converts to 0.137795 inches or 0.0114829 feet.

This link tells you the elevation of any address: http://veloroutes.org/elevation/

Our home is about 100 feet above sea level.
That means our home is safe for 8,709 years. (100 / 0.0114829 )

Does anyone here live very near sea level?
When will your home get wet?

If your elevation is 50 feet you have 4,354 years.
If your elevation is 10 feet you have 871 years.

Of course you have less time since a storm at high tide with the moon is closest to the earth and overhead means high waves, so your home being a foot above sea level means any wave over one foot will flood your home.

There are low-elevation inhabited islands that have already started evacuation.
From Wiki: "CNN has reported that the Carteret islanders (highest elevation five feet) will be the first island community in the world to undergo an organized relocation, in response to rising sea levels. The people of the Carteret are being called the world's first environmental refugees.[14]"

 

[Mayk]

40 ft... So a little less than 4,000 years before its beach front.

 

[monarch64]

797 feet. Tornadoes or floods will wipe us out sooner than coastal stuff.

 

[VRBeauty]

My home is not vulnerable in my lifetime. Some parts of my community probably are though.

Many of the places that are vulnerable are also inhabited by people who have far less resources and options than most of us have.

 

[kenny]

I worry about Manhattan Island in NY.
Battery Park on the southern tip is only at an elevation of 3 feet.
Recently a storm already flooded the subway system.

Boston is one of the more vulnerable cities, especially considering storm surges.
Here's an interesting read about what they're thinking/planning/discussing in Boston and at Harvard University.

http://environment.harvard.edu/node/3272

 

[arkieb1]

I can show you what it looks like when it happens - this was a "storm surge" back in Feb this year out the front, there is a road, a walkway on the other side of the road and a concrete wall.... We had a cyclone which did a bit of damage but the storm surge water that flooded the property was worse. Halfwits decided to drive over to look at it until the police closed the road. I can only imagine what salt water does to your car when you drive through it.

 

[Hera]

I used to live at 13 ft (right off a beach boardwalk). Now I live at 475 feet on a ridge.

 

[missy]

Beachfront house is 19 feet above sea level
NYC home is 144 feet

Our neighbors who are about 2 blocks away had the first floor of their home washed away during Sandy. The main issue was that they had no bulkhead and I don't know how they bought that house because they needed a bulkhead 360 degrees around their house due to no protection at all from the sea. I just plugged in their address and their elevation is 6 feet.

Interesting link, thanks Kenny.

 

[Rhea]

We're on the Thames and the area is currently protected by the Thames Barrier from tidal flooding. The website says that we're 32 feet above sea level, but if that's right it's only because we're on not on the ground floor!

 

[elle_chris]

I worry about Manhattan Island in NY.
Battery Park on the southern tip is only at an elevation of 3 feet.
Recently a storm already flooded the subway system.

Boston is one of the more vulnerable cities, especially considering storm surges.
Here's an interesting read about what they're thinking/planning/discussing in Boston and at Harvard University.

http://environment.harvard.edu/node/3272

Funny you mention Battery Park as we live in Battery Park City.
Sandy was a nightmare. Our building was one of the few to lose power (for 5 days), and of course my subway station was flooded and didn't re-open for something like 5-6 months. My commute to work was terrible.
But, we're still here and don't see us moving anytime soon...

 

[nowicanseethemoon]

I live in Wyoming ... almost no chance of flooding (we get the occasional flash flood) and my house is 7170 ft!

 

[lulu]

Well, the Florida house is 26 feet. But I'm 60, so what the hell.

 

[KaeKae]

715 feet. I think we're okay, for now

 

[ame]

537 ft. We're probably more in danger from the Mississippi and it's offshoots than anything.

 

[Dee*Jay]

597, but I live on the 40th floor, so I'm good for a couple extra millenia.

 

[Matata]

1544 feet but if the big one hits California in my lifetime, my house will still be beachfront property. And Oregon is supposedly long overdue for its own huge earthquake, add in the active volcanoes that surround us and we're toast on a good day.

 

[amc80]

4500 feet I've got some time.

 

[ame]

1544 feet but if the big one hits California in my lifetime, my house will still be beachfront property. And Oregon is supposedly long overdue for its own huge earthquake, add in the active volcanoes that surround us and we're toast on a good day.

Same here, New Madrid fault is WELL overdue for one of its own.

 

[partgypsy]

Mine's 423 feet, but we are inland quite a bit. Even though we are close to the top of the slope of the hill, we do have drainage issues because the 2 empty lots next to us were built on. We used to get by without gutters, but we are planning to put gutters on the back half of our house to redirect rain water. Our worst problem seems to be ice storms.

Not to be a debbie downer but just because you have 100 feet, doesn't mean you have 8 thousand years or whatever. Most likely you won't have a problem but it really depends on what specifically is happening locally in that area. Vanity Fair just did an article about how some very expensive homes on the east coast near Nantucket are about to drop into the ocean, even though they are on a cliff due to beach erosin. And they lost beach much faster than the estimates you are giving.

 

[diamondringlover]

mine is 1161 feet

 

[packrat]

1184. We're about in the middle of the country tho so for an ocean to come this far...

 

[katharath]

2,532 ft. Plus, I live in the desert for added protection.

 

[justginger]

137 feet. But we're about 30ks east of the city, so they'll do something about it far before the water gets to us. It's have to go through about 1.6 million other people first - and that's only today's population.

 

[Enerchi]

321 feet. I'm feeling pretty good that I don't need to build an ark this weekend...

 

[Sky56]

1253 feet, on mountain 1 hour drive from ocean

 

[librarychickie]

Well, I guess I'm doomed. D.C. is at 0 feet.

 

[Chewbacca]

The water is my across-the-road neighbour, but we are on the slope of a hill at 52 feet.

 

[swingirl]

19 ft. I am looking forward to beach front property!