The city is running out of options to deal with it.
It doesn’t take a hurricane to cause flooding in Miami anymore. In fact, it doesn’t even take a gust of wind.
“King tides” have been taking a toll on Miami for a number of years, and the phenomenon is only getting worse because of sea-level rise from human-induced climate change. A king tide is a higher -than-normal tide caused by specific alignments of the sun and moon.
Miami set daily high tide records for more than a week straight for the period bridging late July and early August, despite a total lack of storminess in the region.
View the complete August 8 article by Matthew Cappucci on The Washington Post website here.