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I just dodged being stuck on the Outer Banks or evacuating for a hurricane which has now closed Hwy 12 based on which week the family agreed on for the annual beach vacation:

https://www.outerbanksnews.org/post/n-c-highway-12-damaged-c...

(and they have an on-going beach replenishment effort as well)

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CA already floods at high tide so I think another 10 ft is really gonna mess stuff up. There are so many rivers that empty at sea level and a lot of roads that cross over low points that will need reworking.
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The Bay Area is one big river delta, going inland to Sacramento.

It's not the Pacific coast communities you have to worry about like Half Moon Bay or Santa Cruz. They have a beach, and then cliffs, and then the actual city is like 50-100 feet above sea level.

It's the bayside communities. Foster City. Redwood Shore. The Embarcadero. SFO. Port of Oakland. Highway 101.

All of these are pretty critical parts of Bay Area infrastructure, and gone with as little as a 1.6' sea level rise + 20yr storm.

https://www.kqed.org/science/1973624/maps-see-which-bay-area...

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Foster City has a pretty hefty levee [1]. Palo Alto is building a "horizontal levee" [2]. Looks like Redwood Shores will be raising theirs [3].

This work has to be done for good reason, but looks like they're on it?

[1] https://fostercitylevee.org/ [2] https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/palo-alto-sea-le... [3] https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/new-200m-levee-upg...

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Isn’t the Bay Area quite vulnerable? I’m thinking they’re going to have to build a dam with locks in front of the golden gate
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No way. The Golden Gate is really deep.

The Bay Bridge channel is so shallow it has to be dredged. There was a 1946 plan to fill it in.[1] There were Corps of Engineers plans for a lot of filling, but they didn't go that far. I have a copy of their 1960-2020 plan for the Bay Area.[2] Their vision was to make the SF bay area a major industrial city, building on the facilities built for WWII. Aluminum smelter in Sausalito. Steel mills at Tiberon. Five freeways up the Peninsula (101, 280, 35, 1, and one on stilts in the bay.) Another Bay Bridge. Maybe a SF-Alcatraz-Angel Island-Tiberon link. It would have been like Pittsburgh.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/second-bay-bridge-plans...

[2] https://archive.org/details/futuredevelopmen00unit

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This plan also resulted in a real-world scale model of the bay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_B...
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The topographic map says, the Bay Area is just around the first bay, there's a whole second bay opening up behind it (Sacramento area valley) which could flood with enough sea level rise.
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The problem with that is that there are rivers and streams emptying into the bay. All of that water has to make it to the sea somehow.
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The Netherlands has solved that problem
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This is a pretty cool map. I'm at 20' above sea level. That should be good enough right?
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I'm used to people assuming California = LA + Bay area, but it's the first time I see someone arguing that they don't count…
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