Massachusetts’s Logan Airport is SINKING into the Earth, Warns New Study

New year, new problem to be made aware of: LOGAN AIRPORT IS SINKING!!! I picture Logan being swallowed by the Earth ala quick sand in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon - quick sand doesn't do that by the way, but that's a story for another time. A new study from Oxford Academic breaks down the sinking of the entire East Coast including Logan Airport.

The study, reported in PNAS nexus Volume 3 Issue 1, paints a bleak future for the east coast of the US as it continues to slowly be swallowed by the Earth. The study finds that subsidence rates of 2 mm per year affects a maximum of 2.1 million people, 867,000 properties, and significant infrastructure on the East Coast of the United States. To put it in more consumable terms, subsidence rate is about how fast the ground or land is sinking or settling down. It can happen for various reasons, like when we take things out from under the ground (like water or minerals) or when the ground itself goes through changes. So in a nut shell, subsidence rate is like looking at how quickly the land is changing or sinking.

Logan Airport found itself on the short list of only 4 US airports exposed to subsidence. Logan is currently experiencing a subsidence rate of 1.1mm per year which doesn't sound like a lot - but year after year that adds up quickly, especially on an airport runway where every millimeter is an important millimeter.

Fighting against subsidence involves addressing its underlying causes and finding ways to prevent or mitigate the sinking or settling of the ground. Part of that is educating the public, which was the scratch-the-surface goal of this article. To read more from Oxford Academic's study - it's packed with info - CLICK HERE!

Maybe this is another reason we come across so grumpy or rude to outsiders. Our freaking home is sinking!! More on that apparent grumpiness below. How rude are we compared to other rude cities? Oh read on, please and thank you...

How RUDE? Bostonians are rude, this we know. I mean, we almost use the title as a badge of honor. Many of us take pride in the fact that we can be rude at times. But when you look nationally, we are certainly up there as far as rude cities. Before we count down the top 10 rudest cities in America, let's take a look at what makes a city and its people rude.

The survey that released this data and its findings is Survey Monkey. According to their site, "the two polls for this survey had a total of 2,092 respondents with a margin of error of 2%: 1,075 respondents were collected 10/25/19 - 10/26/19, and 1,017 respondents were collected 11/22/19 - 11/23/19." And what constitutes a rude person? How about anyone not friendly? Maybe people who swear at you or people who don't let you merge in traffic. Or how about people with road roage. All of these things occur on a daily basis here in Boston so it's no surprise that we are considered some of the rudest people nationwide. However, when you look at other studies about rudest cities in the WORLD, Bostonians didn't make the top 30 which seems like a shock.

So what happened here was, Americans who responded to this survey were asked to name the top 5 rudest cities from a list of the 50 largest metro areas in the country. Cities that placed outside of the top 10 include: Birmingham, Alabama, Atlanta, Georgia, Las Vegas, Nevada, Dallas, Texas and Miami, Florida. They placed 11-15 respectively. So let's take a look at which cities are the top 10 rudest in the country.

9.8% of respondents thought San Francisco had the rudest people. A good chunk of those rude people include cyclists. According to witnesses and respondents, cyclists will curse at pedestrians like it's no one's business.

Us Bostonians would agree with this. Those Eagles fans are just plain rude.  9.9% of respondents thought Philadelphia had the rudest people. And yes, Eagles fans are citied in the survey. 

 11.2% of respondents thought Baltimore had the rudest people. The study cites one man who was trying to prank people by roasting them on camera. He would eventually get arrested for it. 

 11.3% of respondents thought Buffalo had the rudest people. I mean, it is a part of New York. Have you ever seen those Bills fans? 

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11.6% of respondents thought Detroit had the rudest people. A specific incident was cited by a woman who worked at a local McDonald's who was tasered by a customer who said her order was taking too long. 

14.9% of respondents thought Boston had the rudest people. Personally, I believe this is a tad low for us. We should definitely be in the top 3. We cut lines, get massive road rage and are very proud of our sports teams to the point where we will get belligerent. 

 18.6% of respondents thought Chicago had the rudest people. Even Chicago's hometown newspaper says their city has been rude for decades. 

18.9% of respondents thought Washington had the rudest people. A lot of this has to do with the political climate with the survey saying some political outbursts can take place on the floor of congress. 

 19.7% of respondents thought Los Angeles had the rudest people. How can this be? One respondent said "We can't even keep crossing guards at our school anymore. They quit because parents are so rude and yell at them every day."

WOW look at the percentage!  34.3% of respondents thought New York had the rudest people. At least this is something we can all agree upon. Even back in the 1700s, the perception of New Yorkers was just plain rude. According to President John Adams, "I have not seen one real gentleman, one well-bred man, since I came to town. At their entertainments there is no conversation that is agreeable; there is no modesty, no attention to one another."