Showing posts with label Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water. Show all posts

Wednesday, 19 April 2017

When Rising Seas Transform Risk Into Certainty

Rising ocean levels all over the place

In 1909, a gathering of Virginia designers set an advertisement in The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch declaring the formation of a subdivision that — on the grounds that it was based on a couple of landmasses where the Lafayette and Elizabeth Rivers filled Chesapeake Bay — came to be known as Larchmont-Edgewater. The engineers set up private jitney administration to downtown and publicized the region as "Norfolk's just high-class suburb." People ran to live by the water's edge rising/italianska.