An article in today’s New York Times features stories of nearly 60 million in stimulus money that will be spent on projects that will be underwater by century’s end.

“The stimulus project includes shovel-ready projects, which will literally be underwater,” said Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. “I think the real tragedy is there’s so little planning for sea level rise anywhere.”

The article talks about Ocean View Avenue in Norfolk, Va., which will have $2 million in stimulus money invested in improvements. But as you can see in the image below, with just 1 meter of sea level rise, as is predicted in the latest reports, the Norfolk area will be more salty than stimulated.