This is a shout-out to all of y'all in DC to take action on climate change before it's too late! Your next opportunity is Friday December 4 from 12-1 at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
If you were in the city when hurricane Isabel struck in 2003, you know that, something like New Orleans, DC is also a coastal city. As Steve Tracton remembers, "water overtopped the wall along Washington Channel onto, yes, Water Street, from just under I-395 southeast to the, yes, Titanic Memorial. The well known Washington DC Fish Market was inundated, and nearby underground parking garages were flooded with cars bobbing around like toy ducks in a bathtub."
I was teaching ballet in Alexandria, VA, at the time. The dance studio, two blocks up the hill from the waterfront, was flooded and I watched a man kayak up King Street.
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