Florida's Babcock Ranch was built to survive a storm. Hurricane Ian was the town's first test. Incredibly, the community weathered the storm – emerging almost unscathed.
Building climate-resilient communities is especially important in a state like Florida, which experiences a
"We had minimal damage. If we hadn't had put in place those resilient steps, we would have had tens of billions of dollars of damage. So those upfront costs to make Babcock resilient paid for themselves in just the first couple of years." Building Babcock Ranch took years of planning and thoughtful design. Kitson's team consulted maps from the 1940s to find out where the natural flow ways of the land lay – essentially, where water would channel through during periods of high rainfall. Over decades, the flows had been changed to make way for farming, developments and other manmade purposes."I told my planners 'forget where they are today, because the land has been drained'.
Hurricane Ian knocked out power to more than four million people in Florida and caused catastrophic flooding
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