Climate
High tide reaches the marsh walk three hours early
A gauge that used to be a curiosity is now a planning document. County engineers want the boardwalk rebuilt two feet higher.
Lena Park, Climate · October 8, 2026
At 9:14 a.m. the water was already over the lowest planks of the county marsh walk, a crossing that the tide table said would stay dry until noon.
It was not a storm. It was a king tide on a still morning, the kind of flooding that used to be filed under oddities and is now filed under Tuesday.
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