A group of St. Augustine residents gathered Tuesday evening to learn more about the city’s vulnerability assessment, which is specifically focused on community assets and their flooding risks.
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“A lot of our typical hot spots that we’re already aware of in the city have been kind of identified in the assessment,” Beach said. “So we’re going to be looking more at projects and kind of vetting. Yes, these are critical assets that we kind of know have flooded but now we have the data to back that up and really support it, so we can move forward with some type of funding or projects that can help address that.
“Hurricane David and Hurricane Donna and Dora were the ones that I heard about growing up and experienced,” Ott said. “But now we’ve been hit twice in the last 10 years, and we’ve flooded on our school campus, even from minor events, tropical storms twice in the last three years.
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