When it comes to climate change, Americans can disagree on any number of points. But at the end of the day, we face many of the same problems associated with extreme weather together. Flooding is one of those many climate-driven disasters that are more or less guaranteed to come to a huge variety of communities. It happens in coastal megalopolises and landlocked suburbs; in concrete-bound cities and tiny mountain towns; in the drought-parched northwest or oversaturated southeast.
Though many governments are lagging in their response to climate change, there steps you can take to make your own neighborhood more flood-resilient. In this package, we spotlight how a handful of communities around the country are using a block-by-block approach to grapple with rising waters.
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How inland America is adapting to high water
We spoke with community leaders, government officials, and residents all across “flyover country” about how they’re protecting their hometowns.
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Is there a moral obligation to disclose that your house has flooded?
Home sellers have the power to make neighborhoods more flood-resilient. But it’ll cost them.
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How New Orleans neighborhoods are using nature to reduce flooding
Flood resilience takes a village — and a lot less concrete.
