When you're a city on the ocean...

[debgeisler]

...and when a lot of the city is built-up fens and land-filled bay, it's a good idea to take the possibility of rising tides due to global climate change seriously.

Boston's planning.

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[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Planning is a positive thing.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

They're starting to talk about it here in Puget Sound country, too.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

Yeah - any low-lying coastal cities best start worrying, I think. Here, we have an area called the Back Bay - which was, at least to a large extent, land-fill. Some good tidal surges could be problems.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

They don't call the main industrial area of Tacoma the tideflats for nothing, either.

Around here, you either live on a moraine or a flood plain. I suspect the flood plains will be getting a lot floodier in the future.