Can America’s low-cost mobile homes withstand the climate crisis?

From Vermont to Montana, efforts are underway to protect residents in flood-vulnerable locations

This article originally appeared in Nexus Media News.

Charlotte Bishop was standing at her kitchen window in January 2019 when she saw water streaming into her yard. A block of ice had clogged the brook that snakes around the mobile home park where she and her husband Rollin live in Brattleboro, Vermont. Bishop grabbed her keys and rushed outside to move their cars to higher ground. Within minutes, she was wading through knee-high water.