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|a Goodbye, Miami |h [electronic resource] |y English. |
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|a Rolling Stone Magazine. |
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|a When the water receded after hurricane
Milo of 2030, there was a foot of sand covering the famous
bow-tie floor in the lobby of the Fontainebleau
hotel in Miami Beach. A dead manatee floated in the
pool where Elvis had once swum. Most of the damage
occurred not from the hurricane’s 175-mph winds,
but from the 24-foot storm surge that overwhelmed
the low-lying city. In South Beach, the old art-decobuildings
were swept off their foundations. Mansions
on Star Island were flooded up to their cut-glass
doorknobs. A 17-mile stretch of Highway A1A that ran along the famous
beaches up to Fort Lauderdale disappeared into the Atlantic. The
storm knocked out the wastewater-treatment plant on Virginia Key,
forcing the city to dump hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage
into Biscayne Bay. Tampons and condoms littered the beaches, and the stench of human excrement stoked fears of cholera. More than
800 people died, many of them swept away by the surging waters
that submerged much of Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale;
13 people were killed in traffic accidents as they scrambled to escape
the city after the news spread – falsely, it turned out – that
one of the nuclear reactors at Turkey Point, an aging power plant
24 miles south of Miami, had been destroyed by the surge and
sent a radioactive cloud over the city. |
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|a Florida Documents Collection. |
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|a South Florida Collection. |
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|u http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI15061956/00001 |y Click here for full text |
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|3 Host material |u http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620?page=2 |y Goodbye, Miami |
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