“Boston has recorded its highest tide in nearly a century on the heels of this week’s snowstorm.
“The Boston office of the National Weather Service said the city reached the record in a tweet sent Friday…
“This tide is the highest in the area the weather service has seen since it began keeping records in 1921. The tide has already contributed to icy flooding across the city…
“The new record edges out the one set during the Blizzard of ’78, another time when a winter storm flooded the streets of Boston.
“Apart from beating the record, though, there is something else about this storm that makes it so unique: it happened so quickly.”
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