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What Happens When Climate Change Affects Your Ability To Sell Your Home?

A Charleston, South Carolina, resident had planned to sell her 1939 Colonial-style house. Now she's tearing it down because of repeated flooding.
Elizabeth Boineau's home in Charleston, South Carolina, which is slated to be torn down. (Courtesy Elizabeth Boineau)

Elizabeth Boineau, a Charleston, South Carolina, resident who had planned to sell her 1939 Colonial-style house, will have to tear it down because of repeated flooding.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with Boineau (@eboineau) about what’s happened.

“I was flooded three times, and the first was Joaquin, which was a tropical storm that came through and brought torrential rain, and that was followed by Hurricane Matthew, that was in October of ’16,” she says. “And then the big wallop was what became tropical storm Irma in September of ’17. Irma brought eight inches inside, swirling around.”

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