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thewhaler t1_j5oiryt wrote

Reply to comment by Ordie100 in Long Wharf Submerged 1/23/23 by TuggieBoi420

It's not even just when there is a storm, this happens with king tides

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Mickey_Malthus t1_j5oygk0 wrote

Thanks for spurring me to finally look up the origin of King Tide. -- It was coined in 2009 in order to describe the boring dystopia of being slowly swallowed by the rising ocean as a "nuisance."

" a king tide is an exceptionally high and naturally occurring tide that causes nuisance flooding (also known as, 'sunny day tidal flooding')"

https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-coastal-research/volume-34/issue-4/JCOASTRES-D-18A-00001.1/The-King-Tide-Conundrum/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-18A-00001.1.full#:~:text=Over%20the%20last%20decade%20the,tides%20in%20almost%2020%20years.

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thewhaler t1_j5p0x2a wrote

wow! I didn't know it was such a recent term

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