Vertical rulers show climate change is here, now!

Highway 80, the only road to Tybee Island,
GA, in June. High tides are
forcing the road to close several times a year.

NORFOLK, Va. — Huge vertical rulers are sprouting beside low spots in the streets here, so people can judge if the tidal floods that increasingly inundate their roads are too deep to drive through.

Five hundred miles down the Atlantic Coast, the only road to Tybee Island, Ga., is disappearing beneath the sea several times a year, cutting the town off from the mainland.

And another 500 miles on, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., increased tidal flooding is forcing the city to  fixing battered roads and drains — and, at times, to send out giant vacuum trucks to suck saltwater off the streets.

For decades, as the global warming created by human emissions caused land ice to melt and ocean water to expand, scientists warned that the coastline of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline.

Read The New York Times story - “Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun.”