05/29/2024
Severe weather events affect everyone regardless of age, but our ability to adapt to change quickly becomes more challenging as financial resources become more fixed later in life. It's the responsibility of coastal towns to consider all of the residents and put plans in place to help relocate older residents during extreme events and use all available resources to prepare for storms. This includes advancing their coastal maintenance programs to include resiliency measures with new technologies. It's high time the ACOE take the next step and provide new solutions to outdated coastal programs that aren't working.
Higher sea levels aren’t coming: They’re already here. And older people are losing their homes as a result. What will it take to keep people safe? By Craig Welch PHOTOGRAPHS BY JESSE RIESER A Fort Myers Beach, Florida, resident, after 2022’s Hurricane Ian. PART 1 A RETIREMENT NIGHTMARE Martha ...