Timothy Williams’ family has lived in the same community for over 150 years, but he is afraid that they are one big storm away from losing it all.
Eight years ago, the Alabama Department of Transportation widened the highway that runs just a few yards from Williams’ home in Shiloh. Since then, every time it rains, water has flowed down the highway, flooding his land with enough force to erode over a foot of soil every single storm.
The dilemma has already cost him and his neighbors, who live in a rural, majority-Black community, thousands of dollars and led to him losing his home insurance…