Every time waves from king tides crash against San Francisco's hard city edge, officials brace for flooding along the Embarcadero southeast of the Ferry Building.
The city is working on two solutions to cure its bayside flooding woes. The first is a shorter-term plan to raise the shoreline... The second would take decades: rebuilding a vulnerable stretch of San Francisco's seawall.
Elaine Forbes, executive director of the Port of San Francisco, said king tides have worsened over the past decade. That makes the flood-resiliency work especially urgent.
We are seeing the impacts of climate change now... We've been lucky, but we cannot wait much longer. Time is not on our side.
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