You always think, Oh, there's no way it can happen again', Hiers said. I don't know if anybody's ever experienced this in the history of hurricanes.
The back-to-back hits to Florida's Big Bend are forcing residents to reckon with the true costs of living in an area under siege by storms that researchers say are becoming stronger because of climate change.
Hiers, who sits on Horseshoe Beach's town council, said words like unbelievable are beginning to lose their meaning. I've tried to use them all. Catastrophic. Devastating. Heartbreaking none of that explains what happened here.
Residents who have watched their life savings get washed away multiple times are left with few choices - leave the communities where their families have lived for generations, pay tens of thousands to rebuild, or move into a recreational vehicle.
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