As Florida Keys flood, property worries seep in

Associated Press ^ | 12/13/2015 | Kerry Sheridan

[N. Theknow]

Most of Florida received record rainfall amounts this past year. Miami and south of I-75, Alligator Alley, have received copious amounts and every time we look at the weather they and the Keys are getting more and more.

Once you cross the bridge and get into Key Largo, which is at the top of the Keys, the water on either side of the road is scant inches below the road surface all the way to Key West some 100 miles west/southwest.

Tampa has had numerous flooded areas with over 30 inches of rain above its yearly average.

Our favorite bicycle trail in Central Florida has more water running under its bridges and its ditches are only a few inches below the trail surface. Been riding it for the 10 years we have been here and it is the wettest we have seen in that time.

Forecast is for even more rain as El Nino is really getting cranked up.

[Flick Lives]

Big government needs to tax people into poverty so they can stop continental drift and plate tectonics and stuff.

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LOL! Perhaps we can stuff all the volcanoes with pages from the climate change conference.

[Mollypitcher1]

Glad to know that someone reported it, but sorry I didn’t see it. Thanks.

[Dalberg-Acton]

I thought Idiocracy was a comedy, but maybe it was a documentary from the near future.

[Chgogal]

Also most underground utility manholes in Miami Beach, Hollywood and Lauderdale have large amounts of hydrogen sulfide(swamp gas) in them.

Has Mother Nature agreed to paying carbon taxes to UN?

[Mollypitcher1]

improperly developed by land speculators from generations past.
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There is the major problem, but still no excuse for people to lack common sense. There are going to be storms, there are going to be high tides, there are going to be beaches that wash away and the best defense is a dune, not a pile of rocks or a seawall, but people don’t have much common sense. Look, isn’t the ocean so pretty today?

[Mollypitcher1]

Has Mother Nature agreed to paying carbon taxes to UN?
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LOL. Wonder how many people have ever seen a Jack O’Lantern when walking across the marsh.....

[Smokin' Joe]

While people expected high tides due to the season and the influence of a super moon, they were taken by surprise when a handful of streets in the lowest-lying neighborhoods stayed inundated for nearly a month with 16-inches (40-centimeters) of saltwater.

Spring tide, "supermoon" and depending on wind direction could bring in 'extra' salt water.

By early November, the roads finally dried up. But unusually heavy rains in December brought it all back again.

If heavy rain brought the salt water back, they have other problems.

[NativeSon]

I can sure go for a latte right now...

[GOPJ]

Glad you liked it - pass it on when you have the chance...

[rodguy911]

The sea level rise a-holls are going ballistic down here.I'm in Islamorada.
It all began when they found one study from one buoy that documented a 6”-7” sea level rise over a hundred years off Key West.
Problem is I looked at the data and there is no corroborating data anywhere in the area. Some of that adjacent areas have had seal level fall so its all BS.
They have one buoy and that's it. Hardly scientific but don't tell that to the lib/rats.
As far as the high water in Key Largo it did happen but primarily due to the moon being super close and the fact that we have one foot higher tides every year in Sept and Oct. on the bayside where it was occurring.

So fall tides were higher this year but the world didn't end.]
A few people saltwater in their cars and a few other problems but hardly earth shattering.

[Conan the Librarian]

I live on a 36 ft sailboat in a river in coastal Georgia. We usually have a 8 to 9 ft tide each month, depending on the Moon/Sun tidal action.

This Fall, we had some 10 ft and almost 11 ft tides. It happens every several years when the Moon is at perigee during full or new Moon.

It’s predictable.

As for my family, we just keep a eye on the lines.

[Robert DeLong]

Already have.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Global Warming PING!

[metmom]

They’re having weather.

It happens.

[GOYAKLA]

Somewhere in the future Mother Nature will tell all the nuts “ Don’t mess with this MOTHER!”
Have a great Christmas and New Year!