TIDAL FLOODS CAN SHUT DOWN HIGHWAYS, turn parking lots into lakes, and spread runoff from overwhelmed sewage systems. And while they’ve been more common to low-lying US East Coast cities like Miami or Charleston, South Carolina, coastal towns that have historically stayed dry could soon find themselves underwater, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change.
Until five years ago, tidal floods in Hawaii, for example, were a rarity, says Phil Thompson, PhD, the study’s lead author and a physical oceanographer at the University of Hawaii. If sea levels
