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Georgia’s sinking coast: Residents scramble to adapt as flood risks rise
The city was founded in 1733 on a bluff that rises 40 feet above the Savannah River, but many of the 300,000 residents of Savannah and the rest of Chatham County live in a tidal floodplain crisscrossed by canals, rivers, creeks and marshes. Hallett and …