“Tampa Bay has huge flood risk. What should we do about it?” by Tampa Bay Times’ Zachary T. Sampson and Langston Taylor: “Thousands of years ago, researchers say, the people who lived in what we now call Florida had to accommodate rising seas. They responded, excavations suggest, by retreating. Kenneth Sassaman, a University of Florida archaeologist, has theorized that some even picked up and reburied the bones of their ancestors. This ancient problem is not so different from the conundrum Floridians face today, he thinks. It shows that nature is always in control, but people can adapt. ‘The challenge we face today, though, is you just can’t pick up a city and move it,’ said Andrea Dutton, a geoscience professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.”
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