The Sun Herald
Tropical Storm Alberto's surge washed over Shoreline Park this summer even though its eye struck hundreds of miles away in Mexico. Heavy April rains drowned roads across the region with several feet of muddy water. Hurricane Ida in 2021 unleashed flooding like few had ever seen in Kiln, where residents used canoes to paddle the streets and pulled wet mail from submerged roadside mailboxes.
"It's definitely increased," Brian "Hooty" Adam, Hancock County's Emergency Management director, said of the flooding. His staff, with help from local fire and law enforcement, scatters across the county to catalog flooding on dozens of streets when the tide gets high.
"Part of that is sea level rise," said Renee Collini, director of the Community Resilience Center at The Water Institute. More here.