Sentences with phrase «king tide»

Or waking the Sprogs at dawn to swim in the Myall River during a chilly king tide.

During the most recent extreme high tide, often referred to as a king tide, the octopus found its way into the garage via a drainage pipe.

This photo taken on March 3, 2014 shows residents looking at debris washed up and dumped across low - lying Majuro Atoll in the aftermath of a king tide energized by a storm surge.

(King tide flooding enhanced by climate change is now able to completely submerge Long Wharf in Boston.)

King tide.

Maybe I'll see you poke - polling out at Pigeon Point or Arroyo De Los Frijoles during the next king tide in a couple weeks.

Atlanta Contemporary presents King Tide, a Contemporary Off - Site exhibition featuring works by Studio Artists Tyler Beard, Jamie Bull, Jane Garver Foley, Kelly Kristin Jones, and Hannah Tarr at COOP Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee.

A spring tide or king tide can be defined as high high tides and low low tides or large tidal movement between one tide and the next.

In a torture sequence during which the Charly side of Samantha is fully actualized and awakened, Davis plays the rediscovery with a sort of vulpine physicality — muscle memory flooding back in a king tide.

In December of last year, torrential downpours combined with a king tide to put this area under around 3 feet of water.

Turner added, «These are precisely the conditions we experienced in Sydney over the past weekend — waves from the north - east, combined with unusually high sea levels brought on by king tides wreaked considerable damage.

An octopus even ended up in a Miami Beach parking garage during last fall's king tides.

It also allows people to report flooding during extreme events like the fall king tides, said Susan Jacobson, a journalism professor at FIU who helped develop the program.

Just how much energy would be absorbed and what the extent of damage could be done by rising sea levels and tsunamis or king tides is the subject of future research.

Even with unusually high and rare «King Tides», the back porch, yard / garden, covered pagola and mini beach were wonderful.

It's not the average sea level rise it's the combination of average sea level rise, king tides and storm surge.

It's also notable that tidal nuisance flooding occurs now at so - called King Tides, and is being used as a visualization tool for the future.

These higher sea levels set the stage for typical «king tides» and normal winter storms to have a bigger impact than usual.

It only takes a small amount of sea level rise to cause dramatic damage and change — as king tides and storm surges sweep further inland.

At king tides it would come up another 6 foot with no problems and breach the beach.

Already «king tides» periodically flooded streets in Florida that used to stay dry, while elsewhere storm surges were reaching farther inland.

King tides and rising seas are an increasing and predictable threat, but adaptation plans to limit the damage to coastal property are still not managing the political obstacles.

King tides now regularly breach seawalls meant to protect Torres Strait Island communities, and it happened again last week.

NOAA reports that so - called «nuisance flooding,» e.g. coastal flooding during king tides, has already increased 300 to 925 percent due to sea level rise to date.

Guido Pena, Miami marina employee commenting on water levels during king tides.

Then, there were the king tides that flooded Miami, the heat waves that seared the southwest, the tornadoes that scarred the southeast, and the rains that never came in the Cascades.

These emperor and king tides are primarily driven by sea level rise — a knock on impact of human - forced warming.

This image is from the Witness King Tides project, which aims to visualise sea level rise using large tides and storm surges.

In the Torres Strait Islands, the threats to culture from climate change are already being felt; for example graveyard sites have already been threatened and damaged by recent king tides, and the nesting behaviour of turtles has already become unpredictable because of changing weather patterns and erosion.

According to the draft of the fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report,... the king tides have exposed a need for better coastal protection and long - term planning to potentially relocate half the 4000 people living on the islands.

Erosion and the threat of extreme weather events including king tides have already damaged and ruined sites that have native title rights and interests determined over them.

Over the past two years, half the populated islands of the Torres Strait have experienced unprecedented flooding from surging king tides.

This is true for the Torres Strait region, where the effect may be immediate; that is, as a result of a climate - change induced extreme weather, a threat that has already been felt when a young girl's life was at risk in the 2006 king tides; or it may occur gradually, through deterioration in health, diminished access to safe drinking water and increased susceptibility to disease.

For example, in mid 2005 and in early 2006 [9], a number of the islands were subject to king tides which were so high that the life of one young girl was threatened, and significant damage was caused.

In the aftermath of the king tides that swept through streets and homes in the Torres Strait early last month, Queensland Emergency Services Minister Craig Crawford called on governments at... Read more

[52] In discussions with a number of Torres Strait Islander people, the impacts are already being felt, with unprecedented flooding from surging king tides and the increasing intensity of extreme weather events [53]:

With «king tides» flooding parking garages and a University of Miami study reporting that Miami Beach has seen a 200 percent increase in flooding in the last decade, the tide isn't on anyone's side.

With flooding in the Miami metropolitan area already an urgent problem — so - called king tides rise from beneath the city through its porous limestone — along with the increased likelihood of extreme weather events due to the accelerating effects of climate change, the city is in desperate need of solutions.

But, as we stood on the shore at Hawks Nest, near where she used to live, I pointed out landmarks from tales I'd told the kids about my childhood — there's the sandbank where Aunty Kathryn cut her foot... here's where we caught guppies in buckets... those little balls of sand are made by the crabs digging... Nana Peg would wake us at 6 am to swim in the king tides, the water would go right up to those boats resting on the grass... my great - grandmother lived on a houseboat that was beached just over there...»

We stood on the shore at Hawks Nest, near where she used to live, and I pointed out landmarks from tales I'd told the kids about my childhood — there's the sandbank where Aunty Kathryn cut her foot... here's where we caught guppies in buckets... those little balls of sand are made by the crabs digging... Nana Peg would wake us at 6 am to swim in the king tides, the water would go right up to those boats resting on the grass... my great - grandmother lived on a houseboat that was beached just over there...»

We stood on the shore and I pointed out landmarks from tales I've told the kids about my childhood — there's the sandbank where Aunty Kathryn cut her foot... here's where we caught guppies in buckets... those little balls of sand are made by the crabs digging... Nana Peg would wake us at 6 am to swim in the king tides, the water would go right up to those boats resting on the grass... my great - grandmother lived on a houseboat that was beached just over there...

Not exact matches

«Studio executives are coming to grips with the reality that they have as much chance of reversing the... shift of audiences from the theatre to the home as King Canute had in commanding the tide to recede.»

That means Miami Beach now floods during «king» tides.

DeVere's CEO and founder Nigel Green said in a statement: «Traditionalists who declare cryptocurrencies «a fad» are akin to King Canute trying to command the tides of the sea to go back.

Among the other contenders were spots like Nike's «Nothing Beats a Londoner,» Burger King's Halloween stunt that gave free Whoppers to people who dressed up as scary clowns, Ikea's response to Balenciaga's blue bag and Tide's Super Bowl extravaganza.

«If the contest,» Calvin declared, «were to be determined by patristic authority, the tide of victory - to put it very modestly - would turn to our side» volume 20, «Prefatory Address to King Francis,» 4 (P. 18)

As political tides changed, corporations became king and environmentalism lost its stylishness in the public consciousness.

Then the Ethiopian came, blurting out his words through gasping breath, «Tidings for my lord, the king, for the Lord has avenged you of all them that rose up against you.»

After ebbs and flows in the tide of conversion, in the first half of the eleventh century Canute, King of Denmark and England, gave the weight of his office to the spread of the faith.

Down 2 - 0 in the second period with the game still in reach, Phoenix found itself with some pretty decent opportunities in front of Kings netminder Jonathan Quick; however, the tide turned when the Kings carried the puck into the Phoenix zone on the power play, causing some commotion along the boards.