Claes Persson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: al winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:11 AM
> Subject: RE: {W&P} SV: Heating up?
>
>
> >
> >
> > Claes Persson wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: al winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 2:45 PM
> > > Subject: RE: {W&P} Heating up?
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Claes Persson wrote:
> > > > > Venice in trouble with rising see levels:
> > > > >
> > > > > EUROPE:
> > > > > Venice flood barriers scheme 'will soon be obsolete'
> > > > > http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=294492
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > -------------
> > > >
> > > > I live in a coastal seaport, Norfolk, Virginia. Most of it is at, or
> > > > barely above, sea-level. I was born here in 1938. The water level in the
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > various inlets, bays and waterfont neighborhoods remains just as it was
> > > > when I was a small child. Venice must be sinking. -- AW
> > > >
> > >
> > > --That too, but that's maybe not the whole answere as the future comes.
> > > Already bow the people on some island i the Pacific has been forced to
> > > move up their boats higher than before in order to stop them from
> > > floating away. That was never needed before.
> > >
> > > Claes
> > > §( :8-)
> > ---------------------------------
> >
> > I'd just like some rational, scientific explanation as to why the water
> > level here at Norfolk hasn't risen in the 63 years of my life and other
> > places are supposedly being flooded by the rising oceans and seas. Water
> >
> > reaches its level, doesn't it?
> >
> --Are you really sure that no difference has taken place? This effect
> could not happen in our earlier years (I'm born -39). Flat lands like
> coral islands in the middle of an ocean need very little to notice a
> difference in the average see level. On a rocky coast the rise so far is
> not noticed in other than a statistical way so far. Taken our ages into
> account I don't think any of us will live to see flooding. But our
> children will, I think.
>
> Claes Persson
> SWEDEN
> §( :8-)
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Yes. This area is low and not rocky. Much of this city was built on
landfill that covered swamps. There are places where I recall people
taking crabs when I was a child. The water level is exactly the same.
Docks, boat ramps, fishing piers,etc...all still appear to be about the
same height above water as always. Nothing has had to be rebuilt or
moved to higher ground, no new seawalls built around many neighborhoods
that are at the water's edge. The areas that flooded during combined
high tide, heavy rain and NE wind still flood at the same intensity. No
worse.
Al Winslow
USA
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