Why ami I not taking responsiblity, Jane?  How do you know that I have not?  The "king tides" were a foreseeable event and one that could have been planned for, in order to mitigate the many issues occurring because of them around the islands.  You are making a few assumptions about a few things, for which you have no "data" to correlate, predicate, or postulate a thesis on.  havig said that, I bid you good day and will go watch the awesome sunsets and the surf.