"I am scared the flooding might happen again, but I try to put it in the back of my head, telling myself it won't happen for a few years and in a few years, we will probably not live here," said Carla Escutia.
"If it floods again, where will we go when we just settled down? We're taking that chance," said Denia Escutia.
The federal government recently broke ground on a massive levee revitalization project to withstand the storms of the future made worse by human-caused climate change.
Officials expect crews to finish widening the levee by 2031. Still, the area that crumbled won't be completed for a few years, leaving residents...in fear they will succumb to floodwaters.
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