Levee built in the late 1800s with horse carts is all that is preventing downtown stanwood and 1,800 acres of farmland from being covered by the ocean again.
Given the ongoing pattern of disruptions to the food supply, it doesn’t surprise me that “efforts have lagged to fix it before it’s too late.” In Microsoft’s backyard, no less…
Well microsoft headquarters is about fifty miles south of Stanwood (Redmond, which is across lake Washington from Seattle).
Personally I am in favor of letting levees like these fail so long as people can be evacuated first, then the natural habitat can begin to heal from all the damage caused by these crazy european colonizers.