MAINE PUBLIC • January 23, 2024
State and municipal leaders say they're scrambling to learn as much as they can about the three winter storms that flooded riverfront communities and set high tide records along the coast within the span of one month. Those storms are what prompted an emergency meeting of the Maine Climate Council Tuesday in Augusta. The group gathered to discuss the impacts from the recent storms and share ideas on how Maine communities could better prepare. Some suggested that working waterfronts will need to be reinvented to handle anticipated sea level rise and storm surges.