Sea Level Rise Thu December 13, 2012 South Florida Readies For
Rising Seas 2012 will be forever remembered as the year of
Hurricane Sandy. The storm did over $50-billion in damage in the
Northeast, playing out a worst case scenario exacerbated by sea-
level rise. In low-lying South Florida, the problem of rising
seas is more apparent than ever, the issue has recently come
front and center in planning for the future. Talk about your
good timing. Local author John Englander's book, "High Tide on
Main Street, Rising Tide and the Coming Coastal Crisis" was
released on October 22nd--exactly a week before Hurricane Sandy
made the Boca Raton resident look downright clairvoyant. "In the
page and a half about New York City, I described a storm exactly
like Sandy hitting New York City, actually hitting Atlantic
City, which is what Sandy did, and showing how the right flank
would cause unexpectedly high damage because of a combination of
unusual factors." Englander has been studying the effects of
climate change and its