In Liberty County, one neighborhood has been slowly abandoned as years of flooding and intense rains prompted a spiral of decline. A struggling buyout program shows the complexities and limitations of “managed retreat” from disaster-prone areas.
In Liberty County, one neighborhood has been slowly abandoned as years of flooding and intense rains prompted a spiral of decline. A struggling buyout program shows the complexities and limitations of “managed retreat” from disaster-prone areas.
New studies show that both beach nourishments and buyouts in the Outer Banks community of Rodanthe, N.C., will be costly. But no funding for any fix is in sight.
A South Carolina neighborhood where residents are considering buyouts of their flood-prone homes embodies the quandary that a growing number of communities will face in the years ahead.
