What America Will Look Like Under 25 Feet Of Seawater, Part 2

As global sea level rises, coastal cities and islands face a growing risk of being washed away. 

Artist Nickolay Lamm, from self-storage search engine StorageFront.com, previously produced images to illustrate what landmarks along America's East Coast would like in the next several hundred years under 5, 12, and 25 feet of seawater.  

This time, he illustrated sea level rise on the West Coast and in Charleston, SC.

Lamm used sea level rise maps from Climate Central to create a formula to calculate how much water there would be on the ground in a specific location.

The resulting illustrations give us a sobering glimpse into our potential future. 

Here's a map of San Diego's Coronado Island today. The tip of the white sector overlaying the map represents the position of the "camera" — pointed toward Coronado — where the shaded region represents the camera's field of view. In the next slide, you'll see what this camera is looking at in real life.

Here's Coronado Island today, from the perspective of the camera in the previous map.

Here's that same map of Coronado Island in about 100 years if sea level rises by 5 feet. Sea level rise is represented by the darker blue shading.