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Elizabeth Miller, Climate Central

Elizabeth Miller is an independent journalist who works with Climate Central to support newsrooms around the country in exploring local impacts of a changing climate.

The rural Americans too poor for federal flood protections

By: and - August 13, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. On the day he would become homeless, Wesley Bryant was awoken by his wife, Alexis. “Get up,” she told him. “There’s a flood outside.” It was 8 a.m. on a Thursday […]