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Sea levels may rise 12 ft higher than 2000 levels by 2100
In coastal areas, high-tide floods , happen once the tides rise roughly 2 ft higher than the daily average for high tides, which leads to flooding in streets, or through storm drains.
and spill into public areas. And the longer such a scenario lasts, the more lasting the damage to a community.happened in the U.S., but a new study from NASA suggests that nuisance floods will likely grow in frequency by the 2030s, and will involve most of the U.S. coastline inundated with four times the number of high-tide flood days each year for a full decade, or longer.
."If it floods 10 or 15 times a month, a business can't keep operating with its parking lot under water.""People lose their jobs because they can't get to work," said Thompson."Seeping cesspools become a public health issue." And there are multiple causes behind this development, the first of which is, predictably, the sea level rise from global climate change.
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