BLDBLOG: "For a recent design competition called What if New York City..., architects and city planners were asked:

What if New York City were hit by a Category 3 hurricane? What if the most densely residential city in the country loses hundreds of thousands of homes in a few hours? What if millions are left with nowhere to live, to work, or to go to school? What if subways flood, streets close, and whole neighborhoods are submerged by up to 23 feet of ocean water and battered by 130 mile-per-hour winds? What if New Yorkers need a place to live during years of reconstruction?

Local architects Studio Lindfors offered a weirdly hilarious answer to these questions in the form of habitable blimps. Welcome to Cloud City." Read on