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Alternate Text: Photo of a truck navigating a road half covered by nuisance high-tide flooding from Puget Sound in Port Orchard, Washington, on January 6, 2010.
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Photo of a truck navigating a road half covered by nuisance high-tide flooding from Puget Sound in Port Orchard, Washington, on January 6, 2010.

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Nuisance high-tide flooding from Puget Sound in Port Orchard, Washington, on January 6, 2010. According to a NOAA analysis, tidal flooding events in nearby Seattle have increased from roughly once every 1-3 years around 1950 to once every 6-12 months today. Photo by Ray Garrido, courtesy of Washington Department of Ecology.