Walking through the streets of downtown Crisfield, Maryland, Mayor Darlene Taylor points to building after empty building, describing what was once there.

“That was Subway and it used to have to close all the time because of floods or even high tides,” she said, nodding to a vacant windowfront. “There’s nothing in Crisfield that’s not touched by our flooding issue.”

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Taylor sits at the helm of a shrinking small town with a massive problem: how to survive as flooding from the Bay and other effects of climate change disrupt daily life.

She thought the town had secured a solution after it was awarded a $36 million FEMA grant last year to help floodproof the town. But after the Trump administration canceled that grant progr

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