[FarCenter]

Mostly because the homes were built too close to the ocean.

[Pollard]

It’s normal and those homes will all be rebuilt - again.

[GrumpyOldGuy]

“sea level in this part of Florida has risen more than a foot in the past 100 years”

F-A-L-S-E.

[Gaffer]

I hope Nancy’s mansion is the first to go, then.

[one guy in new jersey]

“...sea level in this part of Florida has risen...”

Wait,...what?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Sob...if only we had taxed ourselves lebenty zillion dollars, we could have saved those homes.

[Red Badger]

Florida is a huge sandbar.........................

[lepton]

"And behind it all, sea level in this part of Florida has risen more than a foot in the past 100 years,..."

While they are attempting to blame climate change causing the seal level to rise, that it is uneven shows that it is part of the shift of ocean currents.

[glorgau]

It’s the fault of global warming and Republicans.

[FatherofFive]

And behind it all, sea level in this part of Florida has risen more than a foot in the past 100 years,

Right. Exactly how does that happen?

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ sea level in this part of Florida has risen more than a foot in the past 100 years, ”

Very much doubt it.
However the number of homes has exploded.
Homes sit in areas that was open space 30 years ago .

Same thing with California or Colorado wildfires.
Fires have always burned, but what was rangeland 30 years ago, now has 500 homes.
So yes more damage now.

[Bubba_Leroy]

sea level in this part of Florida has risen more than a foot in the past 100 years

No, the sea level has not risen. The ground level has subsided, mostly due to pumping out groundwater.

[absalom01]

A bunch of one and two story type V single-family houses. Not exactly the most difficult types of structures to repair or replace.

And sea levels have been rising more or less continuously since the end of the last ice age 10k years ago.

We have the civil engineering skills to manage this all just fine.

[pierrem15]

sea level in this part of Florida has risen more than a foot

So they didn't rise a foot elsewhere in Florida? What's really happened is that pumping of groundwater has lowered the surface level, just like areas around the Chesapeake Bay, which is also suffering post-glacial subsidence.

[MtnClimber]

The sea levels have risen in Florida because the governor is a Republican. With a democRAT, the sea levels would return to normal, as Dear Leader Zer0 instructed the masses.

[Tom Tetroxide]

Sea level has been rising for the past 100 years at an average of 0.5mm per year.

[dfwgator]

Everything bad is because of Global Warming.

[bankwalker]

sea level in this part of Florida has risen more than a foot in the past 100 years

but only in THIS part of Florida ...thank God ...

[hinckley buzzard]

I knew they would lie about the causes and they did. Aside from double jeopardy of high tides coinciding with storm surge, which they mentioned, they completely ignored the known fact of land subsidence and blamed it on melting glaciers and ice sheets.

[Political Junkie Too]

Maybe it's because this part of Florida has older homes built in the 1960s and 1970s that are not up to current building codes?

-PJ

[Grampa Dave]

Yep, the sea level has only risen in this area!:

“Sea level in this part of Florida has risen more than a foot in the past 100 years, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and most of that rise has occurred in the past three decades.”