On New Jersey’s Delaware Bay, the remains of a house await demolition. The land will be converted into open space.
Credit: Grant Delin
Monique Coleman’s Basement was still wet with saltwater when the rallying began. Just days after Superstorm Sandy churned into the mid-Atlantic region, pushing a record-breaking surge into the country’s most densely populated corridor, the governor of New Jersey promised to put the sand back on the beaches.
The “build it back stronger” sentiment never resonated with Coleman, who lived not on the state’s iconic barrier islands but in a suburban tidal floodplain bisected by 12 lanes of interstate highway. Sandy was being billed as an unusual “Frankenstorm,” a one-in-500-year hurricane that also dropped feet of snow. But for Coleman and many residents of the Watson-Crampton neighborhood in Woodbridge Township, the disaster marked the third time their houses had been inundated by floodwaters in just three years. Taxed by the repetitive assault of hydrodynamic pressure, some foundations had collapsed.
As evacuees returned home for another round of sump pumps and mold, Coleman considered her […]
Superstorm Sandy not only affected the east coast, but also did damage as far inland as Ohio and Michigan. My sister’s condo was without power for over ten days. I These superstorms can cause damage hundreds of miles inland. No one is safe from global warming. See the link below.
https://www.cleveland.com/weather/blog/index.ssf/2016/10/remembering_hurricane_sandy_re.html
My sister and husband moved to the NC coast on the sound west of the outer banks. They are now having a house built. I asked if she had considered ocean level rise and storms. She said she talked to people who had lived there for some time and they said “it never floods here”.
But what of the future changes, can’t rely on the past when situations are clearly changing. Not so clearly to her a trump supporter who does not “believe” in climate change. I am sure that within 10 years if not sooner she will find nature changing her belief. Fortunately for them they seem to have enough financial assets to protect themselves regardless.