The other day I was watching a program about the Louisiana Coastline in the Southern US where the sea level has been measured to have risen 3 feet in the last 100 years and reclaimed hundreds of square kilometers of coast line. That level of sea level rise has not been experienced in the US for 7000 years. Today on the Gold Coast we are experiencing a king tide. It has been the highest tide since I’ve been here (6months) I was very surprised to see that the tide was beginning to inundate some of the inland areas. Water was flowing back up storm drains and almost into houses. There are many highrise apartment buildings along the coast and their underground garages were centimeters away from being under meters of water. I’ve never heard one thing about it in the local news. These places are just millimeters away from a catastrophe of sorts – certainly a real estate melt down.
Note: It seems to be a common enough occurrence now that I’ve read up about it. I read one story where a guy said they built their house in the 60s a quarter mile back from the beach and it is now beach front.
Geez, stop lying Fox. Climate change and sea level rises are a liberal tree-huggers myth sent to control all us free people. And we’re not going to believe it, OK?
[quote=“Fox”]The other day I was watching a program about the Louisiana Coastline in the Southern US where the sea level has been measured to have risen 3 feet in the last 100 years and reclaimed hundreds of square kilometers of coast line. That level of sea level rise has not been experienced in the US for 7000 years. Today on the Gold Coast we are experiencing a king tide. It has been the highest tide since I’ve been here (6months) I was very surprised to see that the tide was beginning to inundate some of the inland areas. Water was flowing back up storm drains and almost into houses. There are many highrise apartment buildings along the coast and their underground garages were centimeters away from being under meters of water. I’ve never heard one thing about it in the local news. These places are just millimeters away from a catastrophe of sorts – certainly a real estate melt down.
Note: It seems to be a common enough occurrence now that I’ve read up about it. I read one story where a guy said they built their house in the 60s a quarter mile back from the beach and it is now beach front.[/quote]
That stuff’s been happening on the Gold Coast since they first started building buildings where the sand dunes are supposed to be, decades ago. Coastlines are dynamic regions. Sands shift with time, tides and the weather.
[quote=“Charlie Phillips”][quote=“Fox”]The other day I was watching a program about the Louisiana Coastline in the Southern US where the sea level has been measured to have risen 3 feet in the last 100 years and reclaimed hundreds of square kilometers of coast line. That level of sea level rise has not been experienced in the US for 7000 years. Today on the Gold Coast we are experiencing a king tide. It has been the highest tide since I’ve been here (6months) I was very surprised to see that the tide was beginning to inundate some of the inland areas. Water was flowing back up storm drains and almost into houses. There are many highrise apartment buildings along the coast and their underground garages were centimeters away from being under meters of water. I’ve never heard one thing about it in the local news. These places are just millimeters away from a catastrophe of sorts – certainly a real estate melt down.
Note: It seems to be a common enough occurrence now that I’ve read up about it. I read one story where a guy said they built their house in the 60s a quarter mile back from the beach and it is now beach front.[/quote]
That stuff’s been happening on the Gold Coast since they first started building buildings where the sand dunes are supposed to be, decades ago. Coastlines are dynamic regions. Sands shift with time, tides and the weather.[/quote]
Of course that is all true, but this is related to the sea level at king tide. It is so high and so much higher than planned for that water is flowing back up the storm drains and flooding out onto the streets. The floods I saw were in fact hundreds of meters back from the beach across roads and into houses that were lower than the storm drain outlet at the sea.
It’s funny in Australia discussing any of this. People here are so addle minded. “Oh, that’s all well and good but what if a volcano explodes what can we do about that. The earth goes in cycles, forget about it.” All the while they are standing in puddles of seawater. It’s blatant self interest (re the carbon tax) dipped in fatalistic claptrap.
That’s actually true. It is partly man made because the river no-longer delivers silt and sand offshore, but the fact remains that the sea level has risen 3 feet.
The Gold coast should start learning from Holland … build dykes/dikes … or raise the land to build big real estate projects … BTW, don’t park your Porsche in a basement close to the water line (or any expensive car)
