RAFT prepares Virginia’s Northern Neck for the storms of the future
Working with community members on the ground to identify priorities — and finding ways to accomplish those goals — is part of what makes the RAFT process unique.
Working with community members on the ground to identify priorities — and finding ways to accomplish those goals — is part of what makes the RAFT process unique.
Elevating homes can keep flood water out, but what about houses that could rise above the flooding—and still return to ground level once the water subsides? One technique called amphibiation allows houses to do just that.
After six years of boots-on-the-ground resilience efforts, Climate Adaptation & Resilience Assistant Professor of Practice Michelle Covi is leaving big shoes to fill at Old Dominion University. Covi relocated to Georgia to live and work on her family’s farm at the end of last year.
Driving through Norfolk to get to the fall Hampton Roads Adaptation Forum, participants experienced some of the same nuisance flooding discussed later that day.