Miami will be 60 percent under water by the year 2060, according to researchers. The main culprit: climate change.
Scientists at the University of Miami predict the Magic City has a little over 30 years before the water takes over.
The sea water is rising at a dramatic rate so much so insurance companies, like Farmers Insurance, are quiet-quitting the Sunshine State.
By 2040, sea levels are expected to be 10 to 17 inches higher than the levels in the year 2000, according to the Unified Sea Level Rise Projection for Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact.
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Gases like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are all to blame for the water rising in the oceans.
But Miami-Dade officials are already implementing their sea level rise strategy through Adaptation Action Areas, according to the county's website.
The county's plan described Adaptation Action Areas as areas that "allow for a more customized and detailed approach to adapting to sea level rise and other resilience issues for individual areas and neighborhoods."
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Their first AAA is located in Little River where $40 million has helped move along projects that improve the sewage infrastructure, stormwater management and water quality.
The county said things have been going well there and officials are now working closely with partners to launch another AAA in the Biscayne Canal Basin, which faces other extreme infrastructural challenges.
According to the Office of Resilience, Miami’s infrastructure improvement strategy includes plans to build higher roads, install pump stations, protect existing buildings with temporary flood panels and build new infrastructures higher.
