Those clever Chinese climate hoaxsters continue to astound and amaze. Key Largo, an iconic locale in film and (arguably) song, has had it tough because of what are called “king tides,” which, because of the Great Climate Hoax, are now even more imperial than ever. Parts of Key Largo have been underwater for 82 days. From The New York Times:

Life during the unusually high “king tides” in South Florida this fall has become a maddening logistical task for people along the Blackwater Sound, a scenic but low-lying stretch of the Upper Keys. For nearly three months, the residents of Stillwright Point’s 215 homes have been forced to carefully plan their outings and find temporary workarounds to deal with the smelly, stagnant water — a result not of rain, but a rising sea — that makes their mangrove-lined streets look more like canals...

“This is a high anomaly,” said Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. “But as time goes on, what we think of as high anomalies will gradually become more normal. There’ll be a time at some point where what used to be our high tide becomes the mean sea level.”



“King tides” are naturally occurring phenomena that take place every year due to the alignment of the Earth, Sun, and Moon. Naturally, the rising sea levels associated with the hoax intensify these phenomena. Add to this the effects of Hurricane Dorian, which, according to the Times, “interrupted the Gulf Stream,” which sounds to the untrained ear like something pretty bad, and we now face the fact that the hoax is causing Venice to disappear only to be recreated off the coast of Florida.



“You feel like a trapped rat,” said Jan Darden, 61, who is Mr. Darden’s wife, as she stood outside the couple’s house with water up to the driveway. She had postponed a trip to the mainland to pick up prescription eyeglasses. Her neighbor, Betina Kiss, 55, who had hoped to finally go for a walk with Duke, her Rottweiler, instead was keeping him safely in the backyard. The fetid water smells like rotten eggs and has brought with it tadpoles, minnows and algae...

Key Largo is a beautiful place in serious trouble. Joe Raedle Getty Images

“We’re on the front line of what is happening with sea-level rise,” Mr. Smyth said. “It has now changed how we live life down here. We haven’t come to grips with where we are and where we’re headed. It’s not an isolated problem — it’s happening more and more.”



There is some hope in the fact that most of the people afflicted on Key Largo are very wealthy and (therefore) presumably influential. I mean, it’s not like this is Tuvalu or some place. Celebrities live here.



“For sale” signs sit outside several houses. Two streets have handwritten “No wake” signs, reminding drivers to go slow to avoid splashing onto other cars, driveways and what used to be gardens. The rapper Pitbull, who neighbors say keeps a house here, has been spotted in a Maserati navigating the floods. At the end of Sexton Way, the most flooded street, is a large property where former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is said to have once vacationed. “If you are lucky enough to live by the sea,” reads a painted ceramic tile by the door, “you are lucky enough.”



However, if you suddenly discover that you’re living in the sea, unless you’re a halibut, you probably have had luckier days.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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