Concern for the safety of coastal communities on the Eastern Seaboard has been percolating since Hurricane Sandy brought many of them to their knees in 2012.
Although the issue is typically viewed as a “future problem,” a new article in The Guardian demonstrated that in coastal enclaves like Charleston, South Carolina, it’s been playing out for years — and as is often the case, working-class people bear the brunt of it.
What’s happening?
Sandy didn’t make landfall in Charleston, but like residents of waterfront communities on the East Coast, coastal flooding has become increasingly problematic in recent years.
Charleston resident Luvenia Brown, 58, told The Guardian that she’d become more focused on weather-related news, as items in her yard began disappearing in ever more frequent flooding…