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world flooded, that means everything will be underwater.

Might I'd swim to the himalayas... saves me some rock piling...

Make sure scientists have the technology to build underwater colonies big enough for hundreds of people, and have everybody cruisin around in submarines fighting mutates fish... which happens to be the idea behind a game i play occasionally.

I live in the netherlands so i don't have to worry about beeing flooded. We would have expanded the delta works beforehand.

Get a boat. Larn Ninjutsu. Become a Zombie. Replace one arm with a bionic arm.

Become a Zombie Cyborg Ninja Pirate.

LordofHats wrote:Get a boat. Larn Ninjutsu. Become a Zombie. Replace one arm with a bionic arm.

Become a Zombie Cyborg Ninja Pirate.

...And that, ladies and gents...wins the thread.

I would do nothing, I live 1 mile above ground level, if the icecaps all melt it only raises 75 meters if not, I can move to the 'hills' (each as big as one of the Appalachians)

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sluggaslugga wrote:The question is very simple...

I think I would just get a rowboat somewhere near (since I'm in finland ) and go fishing.

Dependsd on if I had warning. If I did, I'd go save up to buy (or steal) a suitably sized boat of some sort-- probably a cargo ship-- along with some solar cells and industrial batteries (to discharge whenever I didn't have enough sunlight). I'd use its surface area to provide power while its interior was dedicated to an interior farm for nutrients I couldn't get through fish. Then I'd try to live off of fish supplemented by the fruit I'd be growing. The main problem would be water purification, but I think there'd be enough space for a system to remove salt from the water at least...

Melissia wrote:

sluggaslugga wrote:The question is very simple...

I think I would just get a rowboat somewhere near (since I'm in finland ) and go fishing.

Dependsd on if I had warning. If I did, I'd go save up to buy (or steal) a suitably sized boat of some sort-- probably a cargo ship-- along with some solar cells and industrial batteries (to discharge whenever I didn't have enough sunlight). I'd use its surface area to provide power while its interior was dedicated to an interior farm for nutrients I couldn't get through fish. Then I'd try to live off of fish supplemented by the fruit I'd be growing. The main problem would be water purification, but I think there'd be enough space for a system to remove salt from the water at least...

One day you would just wake up and would have water everywhere (and a magic ladder taking you to the roof of your house ).

no, I would live in an island. the hills here are so steep, that if you jump off of one, you fall 7000 feet.

ineptus astartes wrote:I would do nothing, I live 1 mile above ground level, if the icecaps all melt it only raises 75 meters if not, I can move to the 'hills' (each as big as one of the Appalachians)

75 meters??? The wildest estimates currently put sea level increases of 2 meters over the next 100 years. And, we're talking 6 meters or so in a very long term setting.

It really sucks for people currently living right along the coast, or on small islands. But, for the vast majority of the population, flooding won't be an issue.

yup.

sluggaslugga wrote:

Melissia wrote:

sluggaslugga wrote:The question is very simple...

I think I would just get a rowboat somewhere near (since I'm in finland ) and go fishing.

Dependsd on if I had warning. If I did, I'd go save up to buy (or steal) a suitably sized boat of some sort-- probably a cargo ship-- along with some solar cells and industrial batteries (to discharge whenever I didn't have enough sunlight). I'd use its surface area to provide power while its interior was dedicated to an interior farm for nutrients I couldn't get through fish. Then I'd try to live off of fish supplemented by the fruit I'd be growing. The main problem would be water purification, but I think there'd be enough space for a system to remove salt from the water at least...

One day you would just wake up and would have water everywhere (and a magic ladder taking you to the roof of your house ).

Then, like most people, I would probably eventually die of dehydration, disease, pneumonia, starvation, malnutrition, or any combination of the previous.

Melissia wrote:Then, like most people, I would probably eventually die of dehydration, disease, pneumonia, starvation, malnutrition, or any combination of the previous.

I'd think most people would have died of drowning.

Monster Rain wrote:

Melissia wrote:Then, like most people, I would probably eventually die of dehydration, disease, pneumonia, starvation, malnutrition, or any combination of the previous.

I'd think most people would have died of drowning.

...Or being eaten by sharks...
But..I believe that Melissa is probably referring to those who avoided the whole shark/drowning related deaths...

I assumed most people also had a magical ladder to their roofs.

Swim for a bit... then sink fairly quickly...

Grakmar wrote:It really sucks for people currently living right along the coast, or on small islands. But, for the vast majority of the population, flooding won't be an issue.

Or cities built below sea level! *looks at New Orleans*

4 pages and I'm still the only one with a reasonable plan. Wow. This is scary.

Chowderhead wrote:4 pages and I'm still the only one with a reasonable plan. Wow. This is scary.

I've spent too long planning for dragon/zombie/dinosaur/viking/machine related apocalypses to plan for flooding...

purplefood wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:4 pages and I'm still the only one with a reasonable plan. Wow. This is scary.

I've spent too long planning for dragon/zombie/dinosaur/viking/machine related apocalypses to plan for flooding...

That's the thing. My answer to all of those is "get on my boat and leave". Quite annoying.

You should read World War Z. The boat plan has some problems.

Chowderhead wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:4 pages and I'm still the only one with a reasonable plan. Wow. This is scary.

I've spent too long planning for dragon/zombie/dinosaur/viking/machine related apocalypses to plan for flooding...

That's the thing. My answer to all of those is "get on my boat and leave". Quite annoying.

A boat is the swiss army knife of disaster plans.

Chowderhead wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:4 pages and I'm still the only one with a reasonable plan. Wow. This is scary.

I've spent too long planning for dragon/zombie/dinosaur/viking/machine related apocalypses to plan for flooding...

That's the thing. My answer to all of those is "get on my boat and leave". Quite annoying.

Against water man is nothing...
On top of water man is floating.

Float around on a raft and play the Banjo.

Finally relate to Zelda: Wind Waker.

again, not move, or simply stockpile weapons, teal a gakload of money, hire a pirate gang, hijack a few big ships and live out the rest of my days as Pirate King...yo ho ho.

Melissia wrote:I assumed most people also had a magical ladder to their roofs.

I can't relate to someone who's never woken up on their roof.

Did anybody say drown?

If not, here it goes... Drown.

Capitalize on the desalination industry. I knew my senior design project would be good for something eventually.

Maybe invent some water-breathing pills. They'll have to be suppositories, of course.

Otherwise, just generally be on a boat.