Almost 650,000 U.S. properties will flood by 2050. A lot of them are in Florida | Opinion

Photo caption: An excavator nearly covered by the flood waters in Venice, Florida. The aftermath of Hurricane Ian […]. Photo credit: Thomas Bender Herald-Tribune / USA Today Network. Opinion article by Jane Marsh. Yahoo: News – July 3, 2023. Original article published in the Miami Herald.

Over the past decade, sea-level rise and intensifying storms have indicated trouble for oceanfront properties in the United States. With Florida in the direct path of Atlantic hurricanes, the state maintains the highest flood risk among anywhere else. What happens next — especially as some Florida counties ramp up their resilience strategies while others lack them? Now, deciding to stay or leave could be a matter of life or death […]

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