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I remember hearing headlines of how they're going to temper the problems, did they do any of it? They were supposed to charge a day fee for each person, like $10 so not a great amount and only for tourists. They were also supposed to stop cruise ships over a certain size from coming in. They're in trouble and they're just going to go down with the ship?
Iirc they working on it, they basically have inflatable pontoons or something like that that they put beneath the foundation of each building and raise them up, then drive new pylon/post supports into the bedrock. They were working on that when I was there in 2018, and as far as I know that's still the game plan. Essentially they have to raise the entire city above the projected increasing high tide line.
They also added the lagoon gates, which raise these massive floatation barriers to keep the tide from overwhelming the lagoon.