Claim: “Federal scientists have documented a sharp jump in this nuisance flooding — often called ‘sunny-day flooding’ — along both the East Coast and the Gulf Coast in recent years.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The area is vulnerable to hurricanes as well as floods and severe thunderstorms.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall along the central Texas coast, then migrated to and stalled over the greater Houston area for several days, producing extreme, unprecedented rainfall totals of over 40 inches (1,000 mm) in many areas, unleashing widespread flooding.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The French called the greater territory "New France"; the Spanish continued to claim part of the Gulf coast area (east of Mobile Bay) of present-day southern Alabama, in addition to the entire area of present-day Florida.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: As the hurricane passed through the Gulf Coast region, the city's federal flood protection system failed, resulting in the worst civil engineering disaster in American history.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges run close to the Pacific coast, both ranges reaching altitudes higher than 14,000 feet (4,300 m).

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: On January 30, 2015, days after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a post-Sandy report examining flood risks for 31,200 miles (50,210 km) of the North Atlantic coast, President Obama issued an executive order directing federal agencies, state and local governments drawing federal funds to adopt stricter building and siting standards to reflect scientific projections that future flooding will be more frequent and intense due to climate change.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: A Coastal Flood Watch is issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when coastal flooding along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, or the Gulf of Mexico is possible.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The 1987 Gulf Coast tropical storm caused flooding along the Gulf Coast of the United States.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Tropical Storm Dean caused minor flooding along portions of the East Coast of the United States in September 1983.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Sunshine totals tend to be higher towards the coastal areas.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: A report released in March 2012 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that a strong body of evidence links global warming to an increase in heat waves, a rise in episodes of heavy rainfall and other precipitation, and more frequent coastal flooding.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The two notable floods are the following :

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Passage: Along the Pacific coast, the most vulnerable areas are low-lying beaches, and “their susceptibility is primarily a function of geomorphology and coastal slope.” With regard to research performed along the Atlantic coast, the most vulnerable areas to sea level rise were found to be along the Mid-Atlantic coast (Maryland to North Carolina) and Northern Florida, since these are “typically high-energy coastlines where the regional coastal slope is low and where the major landform type is a barrier island.” For the Gulf coast, the most vulnerable areas are along the Louisiana-Texas coast.