On clear days in some North Carolina coastal towns, streets are still taking on water. In places including Beaufort and Carolina Beach, routine high tides are now enough to push flooding onto land.
As sea levels rise, ordinary travel can require planning around those inundated roads.
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On an audio segment broadcast on Yale Climate Connections, Miyuki Hino, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said some of the North Carolina sites her team studies now flood on as many as 100 days a year.
Hino, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explained sea level rise is driving the problem by raising the starting point for normal tides…