A new study by University of Hawai’i at Mānoa researchers revealed that Waikīkī is facing a fundamental shift in flood hazards as sea levels rise—transitioning from a flooding that is driven primarily by rainfall to events increasingly dominated by tidal processes.
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I mean the alawai is right there. The whole thing is a wetlands that was all allo production for centuries for precisely this reason: it floods.