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In the country. sailors are coming home from long deployments to a base threatened by encoaching seas, made worse by natural phenomena that cause the land here to sink. this base is uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise and that potentially makes it a very expensive headache for the military. to replace just one of these piers would cost roughly $100 million. ray mavis is the former secretary of the navy. >> if we don't arrest sea level rise, if we don't reverse this or slow it down, norfolk is going to disappear. that naval base will go underwater and, you know, i represented the navy. our ba...

It hosts the largest naval base in the country. sailors are coming home from long deployments to a base threatened by encroaching seas. made worse by natural phenomena that caused the land here to sink. >> this base is uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise. that potentially makes it a very expensive headache for the military. to replace just one of these piers would cost roughly $100 million. may mavis is the former secretary of the navy. >> if we don't arrest sea level rise. if we don't reverse this or slow it down, norfolk is going to disappear. that nail base will go under water. i represen...

This house everything that would come with it in terms of the tides, the floods, the power outages, would you maybe have looked for somewhere else to live? >> maybe. but it really was my dream house and it always has been. so -- but i can certainly see it becoming unlivable. and that does worry me. >> for norfolk, the problem has added significance. it hosts the largest naval base in the country. sailors are coming home from long deployments to a base threatened by encroaching seas. made worse by natural phenomena that caused the land here to sink. this base is uniquely vulnerable to sea level...