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Visible-Education-98 t1_j1hoque wrote

Reply to comment by Z0idberg_MD in Stay safe out there Boston by TuesdayTrex

Yes, it does. It also floods in East Boston right across the harbor from the aquarium, has for decades. They went and built luxury apartments where there used to be wharves and now every time it rains and the flooding happens it makes the news like its a new phenomenon and a discussion around how "flood abatement" money is needed due to "climate change". Pfffffftttttt. What a joke!!!! Boston and State politicians palms got heavily greased for those building projects to get green lighted, but in the end, the developers were the ones who were duped. SMH

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mrcatatonia t1_j1hv2v6 wrote

Why did you put climate change in quotes?

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Wareve t1_j1hyzpz wrote

Just based on the context, I think they meant that the developers were blaming "climate change" when, really, they'd built in a bad place to begin with, so the climate is making an already bad situation worse, rather than creating the issue itself.

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Jimmyking4ever t1_j1jci57 wrote

I built a 3 million dollar home on the water and it flooded!

Who could have ever saw that coming?

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Wadehey t1_j1hwk46 wrote

So you don’t think the climate is going to change in the next 30 years and flooding in East Boston will be more common?

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drowsylacuna t1_j1j2mmb wrote

Yes, but building where it already has been flooding for decades seems like a bad plan even ignoring climate change.

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