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Aren't places like the pier area pretty low?

Probably look at places that already have flooding on king tides. San Diego, Newport Beach, seal beach, motto bay, etc. I think a lot of the stuff on sf bay is built on piers high above the highest tides.

Where is the flooding in San Diego? Honestly wondering, because the only places I might expect are Mission Beach and maybe Imperial Beach.

Yeah San Diego is a weird example - most of our coastal property is relatively high up.

A quick Google of "king tides flooding San Diego" shows a couple news articles mentioning National City and Imperial Beach, so your suspicions are probably correct - it's the flatter places down south that everyone forgets exist.

You might be able to answer this yourself based on the tides now. Just ask what a more exaggerated tide would do.

If current tides are putting you within 30cm of danger, then you're already flooding frequently from sea storms. Tides aren't the danger when living on the coast, wind that pushes water is.

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