4 States That Are Prone to Flooding

​Because of global warming and climate change, reports have been released that if the sea level increases by one foot in the next century, almost 3.9 million Americans are primarily at risk of flooding. Aside from New Orleans and Southern Florida as the usual suspects, there are still some areas that are surprisingly at risk with dense populations.

1. Florida
   Florida’s coast of 638 square miles is the home of more than 1.6 million people where they are above sea level for only less than one meter. The population of Florida will eventually need to rise to higher ground, mainly because the bedrock located off the coast of Miami is as soft as Swiss cheese, making it highly unlikely for a sea wall construction.
   
   
2. Louisiana
   Ben Strauss, director of the Program on Sea Level Rise at Climate Central, mentioned that “the odds for extreme coastal floods have already increased dramatically for most locations we’ve studied.” The people who live in Louisiana back in 2005 know better when Hurricane devastatingly struck the area. In 1,180 square miles is where 888,000 people live where the meter length above sea level is only one. This is, so far, the most vulnerable in the United States.
   
   
3. California
   Southern California has never been the area for coastal floods. However, it does get struck by storms that increase the high tide line by about three feet above sea level. Fortunately, it seldom goes higher than that. Since the middle century, people often experience water from three to four feet when the sea level rises by one foot. Relatively flat areas, namely Huntington Beach and Long Beach, where more than 325 people live, are prone to flood.
   
   
4. New York
   Research once mentioned a few months ago that Manhattan is at risk of devastation if storm swells continuously visit. The city had only escaped Hurricane Irene by only an inch, according to Strauss. Manhattan is still at risk of flooding despite its sea walls, mainly because there are about 300,000 people who live there with less than one meter above sea level.

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