As natural disasters worsen and extreme weather grows more frequent, it’s led to more people being displaced across the planet. Sometimes, we call those people climate migrants. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that in the last year alone, around 3 million Americans were displaced by natural disasters. But for some climate migrants, displacement isn’t always so immediate or apparent -- it is often tangled up in bureaucracy and a broken system.
Last week on Louisiana Considered, we heard the first part of the latest episode of Sea Change, Flood by Flood, where we explored what it means to recover after a disaster. We traveled to Lake Charles, Louisiana to hear from those still rebuilding their lives two years after back to back storms devastated the region.
Today, climate reporter Erin Douglas takes to Texas to hear from residents pushed to the margins six years after Hurricane Harvey, suffering through what has become chronic flooding.
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