urbansurvival.com/week.htm#tides
If you watch the BBC news you will see that in Mumbai the tide is 5 metres above normal. In the USA the east coats is having tides up to 2 foot above normal.
The tides are governed by the moon ? and of course if another "body" interferes with the pull of the moon then it could change tidal patterns.
So anything new in the sky recently ?
Interesting to link the two stories - because it makes total sense.