Miami - Tidal Flooding Becoming Routine: "We Didn't Think It Would Be This Bad"

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Ed. - Well, guess again.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In an enclave of a city known as the Venice of America, where dream-big houses look out over a maze of picturesque canals, the comparison to the Venice of Italy no longer seems so appealing. On Monday morning, shortly after November’s so-called supermoon dropped from view on Mola Avenue, it was easy to see why. The tide swelled on command. Seawater gurgled audibly up through manhole covers and seeped from the grass. Under a sunny sky, the water drowned docks and slid over low sea walls. By 8:15 a.m., peak tide, this street in the Las Olas Isles neighborhood was inundated, just like the Venice across the pond.

Sergio Lafratta, an independent business consultant who moved in just three months ago, stood shirtless in tall waders, watching the saltwater seep into his new lawn.

“There goes my grass again,” Mr. Lafratta said. His grass squares floated away down the street. His wife, Marilia, a psychologist, stood on the doorstep in her pajamas and chimed in. “We spend too much money to live here,” she said. “We knew about this” — the flooding — “but we didn’t think it would be this bad.”

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People who live here have complained to city officials for years but said they might wind up having to pay for some of the fixes themselves (one proposal asks for $20,000 from each resident). Already, many have to elevate their sea walls because they sit on private property. Raising the roads may also cost them. All of these options inevitably give rise to should-we-or-shouldn’t-we squabbles. And even as new multimillion-dollar mansions rise from the saturated ground, those who live on Mola fret about property values. “Flood?” said Michael Asser, poking fun at the situation after he opened his front door to a waterlogged reporter. “What flood? The city says there is no flood.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/us/intensified-by-climate-change-king-tides-change-ways-of-life-in-florida.html

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1. I doubt if this couple believed in climate change. !!...

....“There goes my grass again,” Mr. Lafratta said. His grass squares floated away down the street. His wife, Marilia, a psychologist, stood on the doorstep in her pajamas and chimed in. “We spend too much money to live here,” she said. “We knew about this” — the flooding — “but we didn’t think it would be this bad.”

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5. But they'll expect the govt to bail them out.

Selfish hypocrites.

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2. Insurance adjuster (end of article) recentlybought one of the homes. Think he would know better

Or would have done his research

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3. It's really weird because real estate prices in that area have skyrocketed it's crazy

Wth.

I live about 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico in tx and expecte in 20 years to have beachfront property

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4. Bigger Fool Economics in action . . .

You can't fix stupid.