Florida shows how to adapt as coastal cities face growing threats from sea level rise and storms

Photo: Aerial view of local residential damage in the Miami area due to Hurricane Andrew – 1992. Photo credit: NOAA / National Weather Service via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Article by Dorany Pineda. AP News – August 22, 2026.

One day there was a roof. The next morning it was gone. Jeffrey Huber still remembers the day some 34 years ago when Hurricane Andrew blew off the roof of his childhood home, one of tens of thousands damaged and destroyed across southern Florida. For days, first responders couldn’t get to them. For a month and a half, they relied on food donations. For more than a year, he lived with his family in a trailer. […]

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