{"id":197677,"date":"2024-10-14T19:26:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T00:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/theres-nowhere-for-the-water-to-go-miles-from-the-ocean-water-is-becoming-a-big-issue"},"modified":"2024-10-14T19:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T00:26:40","slug":"theres-nowhere-for-the-water-to-go-miles-from-the-ocean-water-is-becoming-a-big-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/theres-nowhere-for-the-water-to-go-miles-from-the-ocean-water-is-becoming-a-big-issue","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s nowhere for the water to go:\u2019 Miles from the ocean, water is becoming a big issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-nowhere-for-the-water-to-go-miles-from-the-ocean-water-is-becoming-a-big-issue.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, damaging waters need not be a the result of a named storm or involve storm surge to destroy property, or spur flood warnings miles from the ocean. Florida\u2019s flat, low-lying landscape, its limestone geology and its development patterns combine to present an ongoing and sometimes unpredictable threat from the wet stuff that experts fear will become more apparent with increasing temperatures and moisture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirtually the entire state of Florida is a coastal plain,\u201d said Tom Missimer, a hydrogeology professor emeritus at Florida Gulf Coast University\u2019s College of Engineering in Fort Myers, who has been studying water movement for more than half a century. \u201cWhen we get a large rainfall event, there\u2019s not a lot of storage in the ground to absorb the new water coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still, damaging waters need not be a the result of a named storm or involve storm surge to destroy property, or spur flood warnings miles from the ocean. Florida\u2019s flat, low-lying landscape, its limestone geology and its development patterns combine to present an ongoing and sometimes unpredictable threat from the wet stuff that experts fear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}