from the not-just-for-South-Pacific-islands-any-more dept.
Americans Should Brace for a Floodier Future
Government scientists predict 40 places in the U.S. will experience higher than normal rates of so-called sunny day flooding this year because of rising sea levels and an abnormal El Nino weather system...
"The future is already here, a floodier future," said William Sweet, a NOAA oceanographer and lead author of the study.
The report predicted that annual flood records will be broken again next year and for years and decades to come from sea-level rise.
"Flooding that decades ago usually happened only during a powerful or localized storm can now happen when a steady breeze or a change in coastal current overlaps with a high tide," it read.
The nationwide average frequency of sunny day flooding in 2018 was five days a year, tying a record set in 2015.
But the East Coast averaged twice as much flooding.
The agency says the level of sunny day flooding in the U.S. has doubled since 2000.
Nationwide, the agency predicted, average sunny day flooding could reach 7 to 15 days a year by 2030, and 25 to 75 days a year by 2050.
Back in the late 1990s, I lived and worked on streets which would get three to six inches of water on them during spring high tides. The work street was elevated 12" with fill, but the neighborhood protested at the idea of raising the street and demanded pumps instead... I haven't checked back on how that worked out for them - but on Google Maps it appears that some of the lowest lying asphalt has been blocked off and converted to a mini-park.
Any coastal dwellers here noticing wetter feet yet?
(Score: 0, Troll) by NPC-131072 on Thursday July 11 2019, @12:31AM (4 children)
Don't panic. [thehill.com] It's the farting cows we should be worrying about. Everybody knows the world is going to end in 12 years [realclearpolitics.com] without socialism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @01:31AM
Changes in NO is largely due to the destruction of wetland that dampens the effects of storms and sea wave, not rising sea level.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @01:49AM (2 children)
It's belching cows not farting cows that are the problem. If you can't even get the right end of the cow I don't see how you manage to procreate.
(Score: 3, Touché) by MostCynical on Thursday July 11 2019, @03:51AM
1 he's a troll, not a cow
2 how do you now how trolls procreate?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by NPC-131072 on Thursday July 11 2019, @11:26AM
Hello fren,
Thanks for your concern but what goes in Montana, stays in Montana.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday July 11 2019, @12:57AM
> Any coastal dwellers here noticing wetter feet yet?
Seems that flood pants are now an official style. I don't know when that happened, as I don't pay much attention to fashion. But I have noticed the fashion world seems to be casting an ever wider net in their endless quest for novelty that they can package and sell for big $.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @01:15AM (2 children)
> Any coastal dwellers here noticing wetter feet yet?
Right on the coast, in flood zone. Nope.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @01:19AM
You must be wearing rubber booties.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @01:34AM
Which coast?
(Score: 2) by Barenflimski on Thursday July 11 2019, @01:45AM
I suppose it follows then that if travelers will turn into a new species of Martian's after traveling to Mars and back for a few decades, there should be no doubt that the population along the atlantic coast will have webbed feet in 3-5 generations.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:13AM
I live in brooklyn, and walk past the Gowanus Canal everyday. it connects to new york harbor and the east river, which is a tidal inlet. there is no tidal flooding at all. when flooding happens, it's because of burst water mains carrying fresh water from the ashokan reservoir in the catskills.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:22AM (1 child)
You fools voted for Trump, now the end of the world is nigh.
Vote Democrat in 2020, they won't do jack about the climate either, besides giving off a lot of hot air. But climate phenomena will again be explained as consistent with long term averages.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @05:03AM
When has climate phenomena, also known as weather, ever been consistent with long term averages? In other words, when in Earth's history, has weather ever been as stable as people expect it to be? Climate change is natural. Earth's natural CO2 sequestration process was going to end life on Earth by dropping CO2 in the atmosphere below life sustaining levels eventually, and humans are revitalizing Earth by restoring CO2 levels. If you want to help the environment, protect the rainforests and hold 3rd world countries more accountable for their pollution. The problem is mostly in 3rd world countries, but communists who want to take your money do not want you to know that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @03:28AM (1 child)
hell no! learn to swim!
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:07PM
Buy property in the neighboring area and sell it when it becomes oceanfront for a premium.