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U.S. Cities at Risk of Sinking
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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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True, for not being at risk from flooding from the ocean given elevation (from sea level).
Local flooding: entirely possible. For example, over a few years city X sinks by a cm, because of that in a flood situation there's slightly more flood water. Over a large area that might be quality a few acre-feet of water: that's quite a lot more water.
It's less that the likely hood of a flood increases and more that the severity of a flood increases.