I noticed they neglected to mention that the water seen in the drain pipe was in the Tijuana River Estuary, that routinely fills with water during high tide and empties during low tide.
The point they were making was that the pipe should not be filling anywhere near that extent and wouldn't have been 20 or 50 years ago. The ocean rises and back flows up the river and estuary. This water then flows through the drainage pipes and up into the wetlands. This is normal. What isn't normal is how high the water is and the composition in certain areas.
It's called propaganda😆, Then again we all live on the third stone from the sun floating in space. I call stupidity that they would make a community right on the beach and those with a lot of $$ could live there. I can just imagine insurance and mortgage costs. But again we live on a rock thats been here for eon's many changes throughout time (duh) just common sense instead of taking things for granite.
What a crock, we have had more rain than normal and rain water always flows to the sea filling the storm drain, then we had high tide with huge surf. This has happened before it will happen again, has nothing to do with rising sea level.
We need to remember that the whole Imperial Beach to North Island area is the product of sand being washed out to the ocean by the Tijuana River and carried north and then west by currents and deposited over the Strand by HIGHER tides than we are experiencing today. Since the Tijuana River no longer flows freely, it is not supplying the amounts of sand that it used to provide. Therefore, we might expect to see some beach erosion over time. But this would not be the result of the current reason for panic: glow bull warming.
Is the sea level rising or is natural erosion occurring? Maybe the problem is the city was built on a natural wetland that consists of sand, not bedrock.
This is ridiculous! The flooding happened everywhere along the coast this winter because there was very high surf this winter and lots of storms. Also, there is a lot of beach erosion because of building too close to the shoreline and the construction of the Port of Los Angeles many decades ago stopped the sand from the north being moved down the coast as it should. Sea levels aren’t really rising, it’s the sand that’s being depleted.
@SSBR2007 The Maldives is an island arc built on submerged volcanoes. The land area is increasing while the land itself may be slowly sinking due to tectonic activity. Florida is a coral sponge. It's not very stable.
@SSBR2007 no we do not have global sinking. Certain areas of the globe have emergent coastlines, and others have submergent coasts. Basic geology 101 explains both the Maldives and Florida. Explain the price of realestate in the Maldives( very expensive). If it is such a dangerous place to live, why the development?
What about stopping the rise in crap flowing into our beach in IB? It’s very embarrassing as a IB resident I am embarrassed to see life guards announce to swimmers to get out because of sewage issues in our beach. 💩
i live only a minute from where the footage was shot. it's in an estuary (wetland bird sanctuary) where these vegitation fields and creeks were created by people as an extension of the Tijuana River watershed and has a direct opening to the Tijuana River and the ocean. The storm drain footage, this is at high tide. That drain always looks that way at high tide, it has for decades as far back as i can remember it being there. and at low tide the creek is empty or nearly empty. For all of these video clips, they are conflating sea level rise and storm damage. what evidence is there to corroborate that a rising ocean has raised the water table in a man-made estuary so much that it would cause undue flooding? it has nothing to do with it. storm drains are isolated from the ground water (which is many hundreds of feet below the surface), and the estuary ground level (which is much higher than the water level at high tide) is still significantly lower that the surrounding neighborhoods and their drainage by many feet. and how much has the sea level actually risen in socal? 3-4 inches since the estuary was built? The other footage of the flooding was due to high tide + storm surge from high winds. while we don't get storms often in socal, in IB we're used to having many feet of sand from one part of our beach often washed out completely, or removed and redeposited in a different area of our beach or up the strand to coronado. it's not a mystery folks, it's part of coastal living.
If this is true, why are the beachfront homes in Imperial Beach at an all time high price? You need at least a couple million to buy a home on the beach there. This story is so full of lies….
Let’s also point out at that we’ve stopped erosion so we’ll that our beaches no longer get replenished with sand. That has more to do with our receding coastline than climate
Quick, everyone buy a Tesla and turn off your AC and heating,, that will save the millionaires who bought a house on the beach, in 100 years, probably.
