"It's a little less than we expected, but it's still scary that the water is rising," said Diane Livia, a volunteer with the environmental nonprofit Bay Keeper.
King tides are a natural regularly occurring phenomenon as old as time, where three to four times a year, in conjunction with the moon's cycles, the tide rushes in further and with more power than normal. They generally occur in the winter, usually January and December. Low-lying areas are flooded, and the water poses a minor nuisance at best, a heavy flooding threat at worst.
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