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How our Coastal Flood Plain works
In a coastal system with tidal tributaries, inland flooding isn’t just about rain—it’s about how water moves, or can’t move, once the land is altered.
In a coastal system with tidal tributaries, inland flooding isn’t just about rain—it’s about how water moves, or can’t move, once the land is altered.
September 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
How our Coastal Flood Plain works
In a coastal system with tidal tributaries, inland flooding isn’t just about rain—it’s about how water moves, or can’t move, once the land is altered.
In a coastal system with tidal tributaries, inland flooding isn’t just about rain—it’s about how water moves, or can’t move, once the land is altered.
When cypress stands, wetlands & natural watersheds are stripped, drained with pumps & replaced with truckloads of foreign fill, the natural sponge is gone. Then the land is paved over with roofs, patios, driveways, roads, sidewalks and pool decks. Instead of soaking in, stormwater runs off instantly
September 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
When cypress stands, wetlands & natural watersheds are stripped, drained with pumps & replaced with truckloads of foreign fill, the natural sponge is gone. Then the land is paved over with roofs, patios, driveways, roads, sidewalks and pool decks. Instead of soaking in, stormwater runs off instantly
Multiply that across dozens of sprawling acres, with thousands of elevated homes and all that water is funneled downhill into roadside ditches that empty into inland tributaries. Then downhill surges collide with incoming tides or onshore winds, tributaries stop draining. Water has nowhere to go.
September 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Multiply that across dozens of sprawling acres, with thousands of elevated homes and all that water is funneled downhill into roadside ditches that empty into inland tributaries. Then downhill surges collide with incoming tides or onshore winds, tributaries stop draining. Water has nowhere to go.
So it backs up. Not onto the new, elevated developments. It floods the older, lower neighborhoods. That’s why we now see so much inland flooding in coastal communities: it’s engineered into the system by overbuilding, impervious surfaces, and the destruction of natural floodplains.
September 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
So it backs up. Not onto the new, elevated developments. It floods the older, lower neighborhoods. That’s why we now see so much inland flooding in coastal communities: it’s engineered into the system by overbuilding, impervious surfaces, and the destruction of natural floodplains.
Nobel Prize–winning scientists have already peer-reviewed and confirmed two things: sea levels are rising, and a heating planet is driving heavier rainfall. That’s not opinion—it’s science.
September 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Nobel Prize–winning scientists have already peer-reviewed and confirmed two things: sea levels are rising, and a heating planet is driving heavier rainfall. That’s not opinion—it’s science.
many Americans are concerned with how U.S. courts will fare in the new tests to their role as defenders of democracy. What if the courts are compromised or politicized? Do they still have a role and can they still be influenced?
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/02/move...
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/02/move...
How movements can make courts play their role in defending democracy
Even under authoritarian regimes, pro-democracy movements can still advance their goals by strategically engaging the courts.
wagingnonviolence.org
April 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
many Americans are concerned with how U.S. courts will fare in the new tests to their role as defenders of democracy. What if the courts are compromised or politicized? Do they still have a role and can they still be influenced?
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/02/move...
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/02/move...
Even its original postulator, Adam Smith said that market capitalism unrestrained would lead to tyranny.
March 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Even its original postulator, Adam Smith said that market capitalism unrestrained would lead to tyranny.
February 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Lawmakers advance carbon pipeline moratorium and bill regulating land agents www.newsfromthestates.com/article/lawm...
Lawmakers advance carbon pipeline moratorium and bill regulating land agents
South Dakota lawmakers advanced bills Friday at the Capitol in Pierre that would put a moratorium on carbon dioxide pipelines until new federal safety rules are finalized, and would authorize landowne...
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February 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Lawmakers advance carbon pipeline moratorium and bill regulating land agents www.newsfromthestates.com/article/lawm...
Hi. thanks for the invite. Not quite sure how this site works just yet.
February 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Hi. thanks for the invite. Not quite sure how this site works just yet.