re: What major US city (like top 50) would fare best?

Denver, no doubt.

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Assuming just rain and no storm surge?

A city actually on the coast should handle it best since water doesnr have to drain far.

So maybe Miami

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That was my thought. The again, it's not as if Houston doesn't sit right next to a bay that drains into the gulf

Maybe Chicago or Milwaukee since they sit right on the lake?

San Diego maybe? - I guess they'd have mudslides?

Not sure about Albuquerque - possibly just like Phoenix and Las Vegas

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Maybe Chicago or Milwaukee since they sit right on the lake?

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Chicago drains very well and has tremendous infrastructure to handle a lot of rain compared to other major cities, but it's super flat. That would be the problem - think some of those big Mississippi floods how the water just sort of sits there.

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I thought San Fran, but for some reason mudslides come to mind.

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I was thinking Seattle for the same reason. You could find cities that wouldn't go under water. Unfortunately, in those cities your house would slide off into a ravine instead.

Salt Lake City. Remember several decades ago when they had a massive flood come down out of their mountains to the east, and they had constructed earthen levees to move the water through the city.

Denver, on the other hand, got wiped out when it was first founded by floods coming out of the mountains. Indians warned them, were ignored, and watched the settlers get wiped out. Same creek still floods, but some containments up in the mountains have reduced the problem.

Miami was my first thought.

I don't see why people are think Chicago would fair any better than New York. It's super flat out there.

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There are a few spots of low lying area in NYC, but the city itself is surprisingly hilly. After Sandy most areas drained fairly quickly once the surge went down.

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Superstorm sandy dropped its highest rainfall total of 15" at Andrew air force base.