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"In Oyster, Virginia, an unincorporated community that clings to an eroding
spit of low-lying land on the state’s Eastern Shore, inundation has become part
of daily life. Since the 1920s, sea levels here have risen by a foot and a
half, and high-tide flooding is now common.
Donna Fauber, who has lived in Oyster for 20 years, has gotten in the habit of
moving her car to a lot that sits on higher ground when flooding looks likely.
She and her neighbors share weather updates in a group text. “We’ll say,
‘Tide’s up, move your cars,’” she says.
The rising waters are claiming landmarks like a historic cemetery and
threatening Oyster’s fishing industry, occasionally making the roads that
residents use to get to their homes impassable. “They’re living with the threat
of flooding all the time,” says Jill Bieri, the director of the Nature
Conservancy’s Volgenau Virginia Coast Reserve, a complex of 40,000 acres of
barrier islands, marshland and other coastal ecosystems that helps protect
Shore settlements from storm surges.
The Nature Conservancy manages 2,000 acres of land in and around Oyster, and
the environmental nonprofit recently began assisting the town’s residents with
the development of a community climate adaptation plan. Hovering around the
edges of the effort — though often unspoken — is an emotionally and
logistically difficult question: Stay or go?"
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
