Florida shows how to adapt as coastal cities face growing threats from sea level rise and storms
One day there was a roof. The next morning it was gone. Jeffrey Huber still remembers the day some 34 years ago when Hurricane Andrew blew off the roof of his childhood home, one of tens of thousands damaged and destroyed across southern Florida. For days, first responders couldn't get to them. For a month and a half, they relied on food donations. For more than a year, he lived with his family in a trailer. “It wasn’t just about the storm itself, but it was about the aftermath of that and...
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