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Marin’s king tide preparations worked — until they didn’t (www.marinij.com)

submitted 4 days ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/california@lemmy.world

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[–] comador@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

'It mostly worked — until it didn’t, when the water inundated low-lying areas.'

It's as if Nature is telling you not to build in a low lying peninsula subject to flooding.

Now if only California would actually build up instead of taking developer dick suckings that result in allowing the development of unsafe areas.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 2 days ago

(Sausalito Vice Mayor Melissa Blaustein said) "The problem we’re really dealing with here is that these systems were designed in World War II,” she said. “The way our flood levels have changed, the way our sea levels have changed, just the way the general infrastructure has aged, they’re not sufficient for the times we’re living in.”

Either protect what they have, or the people and businesses have to become climate refugees.