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Huge waves to hit California coast for third day, bringing flooding and life-threatening conditions (www.cnn.com)

submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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Massive waves and coastal flooding are wreaking havoc for a third day in many of California’s coastal communities, where extreme conditions have forced water rescues, washed away cars and injured a handful of enthralled onlookers.

The unusually large surf – often towering over 20 feet – has prompted beach closures along the California coast and sent damaging deluges of water into several beachside streets, homes and businesses.

In hard-hit Ventura County, waves have surged over seawalls and carried parked cars down the street and into significant intersections, blocking first responders’ paths, fire captain Brian McGrath told CNN affiliate TNLA. Flooding in a local hotel also caused damage in all of its ground-floor rooms, he said.

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[-] Zrybew@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Well in line with the rising sea roadmap, resulted from global warming.

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/ipcc-ar6-sea-level-projection-tool?psmsl_id=1355&data_layer=scenario

[-] em2@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

And yet, it's still a surprise. 🤦‍♀️

[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

Lots of short sighted conservatives are saying “good. Fuck California anyway.”

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

“Never gonna get those big waves here in Iowa, so why should I care about rising seas”

[+] Candelestine@lemmy.world -25 points 10 months ago

Cali has enough money to deal with these kinds of problems, all the cities up and down the west coast are rich as fuck from being a leading area in tech development.

I'm more worried about poorer coastal areas.

[-] pgp@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

No amount of money can save them from the rising sea levels.

[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago

You'd be surprised. Where a place like Florida is flat and low elevation, where a huge amount of coastline is vulnerable, Cali is pretty mountainous. I'm not worried about them.

[-] deft@ttrpg.network 2 points 10 months ago

Katrina has entered the chat

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Good call. The more low lying areas will get consumed, like downtown Laguna, CDM, parts of Newport, etc, but high ground areas will become beachfront property. The issue then lies with navigable routes, as areas like Laguna (and Laguna Canyon) will be destroyed leaving many of those people stranded.

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