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Amplitude and volume to increase and that will create a bigger surge effect. also a lot of the folks who live around here, yeah, you have money in and around here living on the coast, beautiful homes and all that, there are lots of pockets of rural communities as well and poverty. those people don't have the same access to emergency relief. they're going to be harder to reach. it will be harder to know what's going on. those are unique challenges here. >> good point. >> king tides, what are they? when are they? relevance? >> king tides typically, it's hard to give a scientific definition becau...

Homes and barrier islands, but panama city, dustin over toward fort walton, we just don't have that protection. so you've got that gradual slope of that ocean floor slowly rising and continuing. so this is going to inundate several, several areas of that big bend region. if there is an area to get hit, it would be this one. i don't mean that disconcerning, but we have nature land. >> i want to button up something else. here i quickly showed you in terms of the gradations of the shelf. as it gets more and more shallow as you go, it is going to allow wave, amplitude and volume to increase and th...