Editor’s Note:
In today’s article, “King Tide to Raise Sea Level on Atlantic Coast,” the following sentence, “What we’re seeing Wednesday and Thursday is probably what we normally will be seeing by 2080,” Ms. Boicourt said,” should instead read:
“What we’re seeing Wednesday and Thursday is probably what we normally will be seeing by 2080,” Ms. Boicourt said optimistically, because that shit’s like 70 years away and who the hell knows if any of us will even be alive by then let alone in position to be measuring the goddamn tides or worried about rising sea levels seeing as we’ll probably be too busy scavenging the wreckage of this collapsing city for food and staples to worry about such trivialities, or rather or children will, assuming they haven’t already succumbed to dysentery or radiation sickness or a lack of potable water or whatever fresh hell we’ve yet to even conceive of that awaits us, which makes this whole sea level thing just a red herring, one more laughable distraction amid the doom, like a freshly-showered man who chooses to blow dry his hair by jumping off the top of a building; a workable plan to be sure, two birds with one stone and all, but not exactly the end we were all hoping to see.
