12/3 Palm Beach Marathon Facing Up To 4 Feet Of High Tide Flooding Along Route

[hatrack]

A benchmark marathon for Palm Beach County may face a significant detour triggered by sea level rise and king tides — events scientists say will increasingly affect activities of coastal communities.

Sunday’s Fitteam Palm Beaches Marathon coincides with higher than normal seasonal tides that typically cause coastal flooding in the most vulnerable areas of southeast Florida, including portions of the route runners will take along the Intracoastal waterway in the Town of Palm Beach. That could force organizers to switch to a backup route, a move not expected to be made until Saturday morning, just a day before the marathon.

It would be a crude retreat of sorts, considering this is the first time in the marathon’s history that the route will be on Palm Beach, in an area only about a mile and a half north of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club.

The town has warned event organizers that, if the marathon comes into Palm Beach and flooding becomes a problem, the runners will have to turn back, Town Manager Tom Bradford said. Meteorologists are not expecting this weekend’s tides to rise as high as those in October and November, but they are forecast to surpass the average swell.

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http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/weather/climate-change-king-tides-could-force-marathon-reroute/IiFJIs00KCZKxdet7kwzQL/

[underpants]

1. Marathoners don't like unexpected changes

Especially those who may have picked what I'd guess is a pretty flat course to qualify for Boston or NYC.

I've started 5 marathons and finished 4.

[yallerdawg]

2. There may be some walls to build - lots of walls -

but the Dotard of course has got it all wrong!

[Roland99]

3. Supermoon

[Loge23]

4. The Kingdom of Palm Beach

I love how the town cabal of Palm Beach thinks that their little island is a kingdom of sorts, not subject to the riff-raff over the bridges (unless of course to do all the work).
I good place to start the RISE UP campaign would be to march across the bridge en masse the next time the IPOTUS is in town and completely occupy Palm Beach. Could you imagine a million or so marchers? It would be great, but I'm probably dreaming.