
Inundation District | King Tide
Clip: Season 8 Episode 14 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
What are king tides? In recent years, Boston has experienced these on land more frequently.
High tides are not what they used to be as sea levels continue to rise year after year. In Boston, what are also known as king tides are now flooding the made land that residents and visitors walk on, and live in, in neighborhoods like the Seaport district.
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Inundation District | King Tide
Clip: Season 8 Episode 14 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
High tides are not what they used to be as sea levels continue to rise year after year. In Boston, what are also known as king tides are now flooding the made land that residents and visitors walk on, and live in, in neighborhoods like the Seaport district.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship-[Alice Brown] And what we're ex is what some locals call a wicked high tide, other people call it a king tide all of which means that the earth, the sun, and the moon are all in line.
So this is a totally naturally o but it is higher today than it would've been 30, 40 yea Regular high tides are gonna get and higher and higher.
It's going to do damage.
- [Rachel Vincent] As the sea le with the changing climate, this could be what every high ti and that's just a really wild wake up call to realize, especially in historic structures like this.
As you can see, part of the city is underwater right now.
These normal high tides will probably start to have a lot more of it underwater a lot more often at just normal sunny day high ti let alone thinking of storm surg - And you see on our signage here, this isn't to scale, but by 2030, we're expecting to see a foot of sea level rise.
Inundation District | Boston's Made Land
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Inundation District | Projecting Sea Level Rise
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Clip: S8 Ep14 | 2m 10s | Climate change and ultimately, rising sea levels will impact the city of Boston and its coastline. (2m 10s)
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