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This past week, The Post published the first two pieces in a new series showcasing an alarming phenomenon confronting tens of millions of Americans from Texas to North Carolina: The ocean is rising across the South faster than almost anywhere.
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In some communities, roads increasingly are falling below the highest tides, leaving drivers stuck in repeated delays or forcing them to slog through salt water to reach homes, schools, work and places of worship.
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Researchers and public officials fear that in certain places, rising waters could periodically cut off residents from essential services such as medical aid.

For Post reporters Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis, the project hit close to home.
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Chris grew up in New Orleans, and watched as Hurricane Katrina inundated his mother’s home. The 200-mile coastal stretch that he covered for one of this week’s stories largely parallels the route he used to drive with friends and family when going to visit the beach in the Florida panhandle.
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Brady grew up in North Carolina, fishing and catching shrimp with his father and grandfathers along the Outer Banks and south toward Myrtle Beach. He also covered Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Both men have seen firsthand the devastation that hurricanes and flooding can bring.
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But what became even clearer as Chris and Brady and other Post colleagues reported on these stories and analyzed decades of data is that the accumulation of myriad smaller-scale impacts from rising water levels is the newer, more insidious challenge.
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One that ultimately will become the most difficult to cope with.

“We are preparing for the wrong disaster almost everywhere,” one researcher told them. “These smaller changes will be a greater threat over time than the next hurricane, no question about it.
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