The Great Floodings

The Great Floodings of the 21st century were a series of world changeing floods aswell as a steadily increasing rate of sea level rise following the breaking and subsequent melting of enormus antarctic ice shelfs. Global warming and the heating of oceans were lead to this desaster.

2060

By 2060 the sea level already had risen by 0,8 meters, affecting costal cities causing an estimated total in excess of US$3.000 billion in damages. Storms and floodings continue to increase in intensity and frequency.

Affected major cities in 2060

• Miami, USA
• Guangzhou, P.R. of China
• New York-Newark, USA
• Kolkata, India
• Shanghai, P.R. of China
• Mumbai, India
• Tianjin, P.R. of China
• Tokyo, Japan
• Hong Kong, P.R. of China
• Bangkok, Thailand

• Ningbo, P.R. of China
• New Orleans, USA
• Osaka-Kobe, Japan
• Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Nagoya, Japan
• Qingdao, China
• Virginia Beach, USA
• Alexandria, Egypt

2100

By the end of the 21st century the sea level had risen by 1,9 meters. Shore-based communities faced tremendous difficulties and hardship as ever worse floodings pummeled the coastlines and devestated costal cities. Many islands like Maldives and Tuvalu were rendered uninhabitable other were claimed in part or entirely by the ocean, erasing them from the map. Millions died due tsunamies and flash floodings, tens of millions of people had to be relocated or evacuated. Record setting storms still regularly occur in now costal areas, however preparedness such as flood walls and similar messures have drasticly increased.

Type

Natural