Florida’s Beaches Have a Problem, and Hurricane Matthew Ain’t Helping
Florida’s Beaches Have a Problem, and Hurricane Matthew Ain’t Helping
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 11, 20165m 44s
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Show Notes
Hurricane Matthew is already a tragedy. It killed hundreds battering through the Caribbean, and knocked out power, forced evacuations, and flooded beaches as it scoured the Florida coastline. But thinking long-term, the storm is a punctuation mark in the creeping erosion narrative playing out on many southeastern shorelines. Erosion is nothing new. Shorelines experience seasonal ebbing from winter, and typically regrow in the summer.
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