7 storm solutions other cities and states are testing out

Here's a look at what other communities are doing.

🌊 Tampa: Tampa General Hospital deploys an AquaFence flood wall before storms to block rising water. See it in action.

• Ohio State University also uses one, according to the flood wall manufacturer. The Massachusetts Port Authority in Boston has one for storm surge, too.

🚧 Florida: Babcock Ranch is a planned community in southwest Florida designed to withstand storms — underground utilities, higher elevation, solar systems and an extensive drainage infrastructure, according to Time.

• When their neighboring communities lost power and flooded during Category 4 Hurricane Ian, they didn't, the story says.

🦪 New York: The Billion Oyster Project is building oyster reefs in New York Harbor to protect the shoreline from storm surge and erosion.

• There's a similar project in the Chesapeake Bay.
• Louisiana and Mississippi also do this with oysters and old Christmas trees.

🔌 Baltimore: City leaders started their resilience hub in 2014 and the concept spread to other cities, including New Orleans, Miami and San Francisco, Pew says.

• These neighborhood centers coordinate multilingual disaster response and double as temporary shelters and cooling spaces.

🌾 New Jersey: The Nature Conservancy is studying how restored marshes, oyster reefs and living shorelines can help coastal communities after Superstorm Sandy.

💧 Charleston: Officials are transforming an old rail corridor into the Lowcountry Lowline park that will be used in part to manage the city's stormwater.

🧽 Washington, D.C.: A sponge‑like green infrastructure project near Rock Creek Park manages flash flooding with permeable surfaces and rain-absorbing plants, according to the Wall Street Journal.