Environment
Nor'easters Expose Climate Weak Spots in Boston
Boston has been planning for climate change, but plans couldn’t buffer it from this winter’s fierce storms.
Trendy restaurants, $3 million condominiums, and upscale hotels line the waterfront of Boston’s fashionable Seaport District. Many of them were built in just the past 10 years, with sea-level rise already an acknowledged threat.
But when two destructive nor’easters slammed into Massachusetts Bay early this year, streets and stores flooded, cars drowned, and water poured into a Blue Line subway station.