Would retire to Florida, but...

Hahaha! More warble gloaming nonsense.

The sea ain't gonna rise. Even if there was such a thing as global warming - which there isn't - the sea wouldn't rise by more than an inch or two.
It was Al Gore who predicted a huge rise in sea level in his bullshit movie.
And what did he do with the money he earned from his movie?
Why, he bought a $9 million oceanfront villa in Montecito.

Yeah, they knocked $125,000 off for the tidal wave risk : )

Okay, I give 5 stars to mcans for his answer. You are the winner! lol!

Thanks Raybar. That's an interesting video/article. As my retired rocket scientist friend in Cape Canaveral would say, "It's all physics!" Warmer water expands and ice melts. I don't think I'll buy any Miami property anytime soon. My house in the Hill Country is ~900 ft above sea level at the moment. Maybe I'll just stay up here.

I wouldn't want to live in Florida anyway. Too many hurricanes, alligators, swamps, and wildlife. Oh, and snakes. 

Tricia, the last hurricane to hit Hawaii was in 1992 (knocking wood here). The one before that was in 1982. No alligators, no snakes, (some fool sneaks in a snake now and the to keep as a pet), no wildlife roaming into one's yard, except for maybe a mongoose once in a while (they were imported here to manage the rats--likely jumped off Captain Cook's ship--haha--). I guess you could call them our version of chipmunks or squirrels--we don't have them either.  But the idiots didn't realize that rats roam at night while the mongoose are catching up on their zzzzzz's.

There are wild boar deep in some forests and there's a hunting season for that. Some idiots imported goats and shieep to the Big Islalnd. One of those wiseguys got a huge fine for that. But, hey they're here. The only swamp I'm aware of had been Waikiki before it was filled in with whatever. 

Okay, what else? Oh, no rabies. Australia doesn't have rabies either, and puppies are imported from there sometimes. I guess I shouldn't be bragging so much because of the one animal I haven't mentioned that really are a pain in the butt--too mamy cars.

Yeah, Kauai seems to always get it the worst, at least with the last two hurricanes. Kauai is known for a lot of rain, but I don't know if that's a factor. It is called the Garden Island, though.  I would think it's partly because of all that precipitation. 

OMG. And I get bent out of shape when it's just a few hours of power outage. We've had one bad one across the entire island for around 24 hours. It even has a name--Black Tuesday. I mean really--how spoiled is that? Lol  Yes, I sure do understand how scary and horrible a hurricane can be. And cutsie names doesn't make them less scary. One time back a couple of decades there was a tsunami warning here. The traffic became so congested trying to get away from coastlines that if the tsumani really did show up, all these people would have drowned. At least that was a lesson learned.