St. John’s was under a state of emergency for eight days as crews worked to clear roads, and other municipalities responded to infrastructure damage and similarly deep snowfalls
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According to the federal Canada’s Changing Climate Report published last year, the Atlantic region is facing rising seas and falling coastlines. It noted that eastern coasts are continuing to sink while projecting between 75 centimetres and one metre of relative sea level rise for the area by the end of the century.
For Ashlee Consulo, director of Memorial University’s Labrador Institute, governments need to start preparing for frequently intense weather. Analysis by The Canadian Press last year showed military assistance was requested for 10 weather-related disasters over the previous two years, compared with 20 calls between 2007 and 2016.
He said continued sea level rise and the expansion of ocean water due to heating could aggravate the storm-surge risk.
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