Montée du niveau des océans: la #Floride en première ligne
▻http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/04/22/floride-montee-du-niveau-des-oceans_n_5193303.html
Le maire de Miami-Beach, Philip Levine, a quant à lui raconté comment, lors d’inondations, les habitants sont forcés de traverser les rues avec de l’eau jusqu’aux genoux pour rentrer chez eux.
Warming world’s rising seas wash away some of South Florida’s glitz
▻http://www.smh.com.au/world/warming-worlds-rising-seas-wash-away-some-of-south-floridas-glitz-20141220-1
What was not so widely reported was that South Beach stank of shit. There is no nice way to put it. The place smelled of human waste. There had been a brief, heavy downpour but the water could not escape, so the sewers backed up and filled the roads. The traffic slowed to walking pace or seized entirely, and the models tottering between the restaurants and hotels and clubs had to pick wide arcs on the pavements to avoid the nasty pools swelling from the gutters.