This was US Highway 98, between Ft. Walton Beach and Destin in the aftermath of Hurricane Opal in 1995. Nobody screamed "CLIMATE CHANGE"................
Elsewhere in the county they have lowered roads. When working on roadways that are too narrow, they are obliged to widen them but they may NOT bring in more material to do so. As a consequence they use what is there to widen the road, in effect lowering it making it more prone to flooding and the Press screams, "CLIMATE CHANGE!"
Excellent background info, rey! Thanx!
If you build an inadequately engineered highway through “tidal marshlands”, do not be surprised that it gets flooded and wiped out from time to time..............
If sea level has risen why isn’t Bangladesh covered with water?
The Medieval Warm Period (MWP), Medieval Climate Optimum, or Medieval Climatic Anomaly was a time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region that may also have been related to other climate events around the world during that time, including China[1] and other areas,[2][3] lasting from about 950 to 1250.[4] It was followed by a cooler period in the North Atlantic and elsewhere termed the Little Ice Age. Some refer to the event as the Medieval Climatic Anomaly as this term emphasizes that effects other than temperature were important.
Greenland is called that because it was verdant when first discovered. Retreating glaciers in Iceland uncover homesteads and farms from that time.
Of course, this extreme warming was caused by all the SUV’s and diesel trucks running around 1000 years ago.
How did people get around before there were roads? A lack of roads does not mean the end of civilization. It does sound like some really shoddy road construction, probably a bid from someone with a connection to a politician.
This was US Highway 98, between Ft. Walton Beach and Destin in the aftermath of Hurricane Opal in 1995. Nobody screamed "CLIMATE CHANGE"................
See. Now that Obama is gone, the seas have started to rise again!!!!!
“Elsewhere in the county they have lowered roads. When working on roadways that are too narrow, they are obliged to widen them but they may NOT bring in more material to do so. As a consequence they use what is there to widen the road”
I deal with this at work from time to time, so I understand why that’s required...but man is that stupid. A very expensive solution would be to put the road on piers, I suppose.
No new material to raise the roads above sea level.
No new work or new material for the levees that protect against high tide.
You just can’t fix stupid.
Or probably can’t.
When folks have to drive through Napa via 29 and 121 to get to and from the 101, they might, just might, allow some road work.
It was a storm. Storms this size happen periodically, that’s why we have “100 year” and “500 year” storms. Sometimes you even get big storms in back to back years.
Amazing how a level sea will only rise in just a few choice places throughout the globe.
Miami was supposed to be gone by now.
Wow, who knew storms could cause flooding?!?
We had two roads get washed out a few years ago and we’re nowhere near the ocean.
OMG! These Californians will have to start living like the Dutch along the North Sea! It’s a horror!
They are preaching the same Bull Ship around Humboldt Bay every time a major storm surge pushes the tides higher as the tidelands continue to sink from settlement and compaction of the soils...
