And a shelter in Lafayette, an inland city heavy with oil workers, got 200 more calls in the eight weeks after the oil disaster started than it did in the eight weeks before.

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Similar experiments were performed in Swindon, which was selected "because it is a reasonably large inland industrial city in the midst of a large rural area".

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Even during the height of summer, a cool breeze and misty fog often roll in over the pristine oceanside cliffs, offering a respite from the smothering desert heat that blankets the city farther inland.

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Flooding near Atlantic City had already extended to waterways inland about 18 miles.

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However, the company recently had to expand their facilities to the city of Chengdu which is more inland so they could have more space at lower costs.

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Savannah's port is almost 20 miles (32km) inland on the Savannah River, far from the city's charming Victorian centre, in the distinctly unlovely suburb of Garden City.

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The Texas Department of Transportation said it expected to open a shoulder of northbound Interstate 37 to traffic -- from coastal Corpus Christi to U.S. 281 roughly 80 miles inland -- on Wednesday morning to help people trying to leave the city.

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