Huge waves to hit California coast for third day, bringing flooding and life-threatening conditions
Huge waves to hit California coast for third day, bringing flooding and life-threatening conditions
Monstrous waves continue to wreak havoc along the California coast, where beachside communities have been facing damaging flooding and life-threatening water conditions as a series of storms makes its way onshore.
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.
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
And yet, it's still a surprise. 🤦♀️
Lots of short sighted conservatives are saying “good. Fuck California anyway.”
“Never gonna get those big waves here in Iowa, so why should I care about rising seas”
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.