# Salt Lake City may soon become unlivable

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 17, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-city-may-soon-become-unlivable/966397 "2022-06-17T19:57:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-city-may-soon-become-unlivable/966397/41 "2023-09-10T21:41:04Z")

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Photos, from May 1980  
In the closeup of my hand, a couple of the tiny white spots are uber-tiny shells.

[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D0RH0iZAp3cfTQ3IyCYNOo-nJ0gboVH4?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D0RH0iZAp3cfTQ3IyCYNOo-nJ0gboVH4?usp=sharing)

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-city-may-soon-become-unlivable/966397/42 "2023-09-10T21:49:25Z")

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Threadjacklet: I recently saw a recipe where “escarole” had been auto-corrected to “escargot”, and people knew what it was supposed to say but were asking, “How do you coarsely chop THOSE heads?”

Back to our regularly scheduled programming, I was just looking at some Salton Sea hydrologic graphs, and it doesn’t look like Hurricane Hilary did much to it. I also had not known that it is about 250 feet below sea level.

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