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Select what interests you in Alabama State optional. Civil Rights Legacy. Dauphin Island offers an authentic taste of the beautiful Gulf Coast. It is a quaint, small southern town with a strong marine culture, an eclectic mix of locally owned shops and galleries, and laid-back restaurants that serve delicious locally harvested seafood. Located at the southernmost point of Alabama — 3 miles south of the Mobile Bay — Dauphin Island feels worlds away, but is easy to reach.
Just a short drive off I, between Biloxi, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama, the island welcomes you with views from a 3- mile-long high-rise bridge. An automobile and passenger ferry from the eastern shore also offers a dramatic entry point on the eastern end of the island. One of the rites of spring here is the annual Blessing of the Fleet. Bayou La Batre is also host to a successful boat building industry, producing everything from barges and tugs to the Black Pearl from Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
In , the town received national attention when President Obama named Regina Benjamin, a rural health clinic physician from Bayou La Batre, as the U. Surgeon General. Crozier, the former head of a marine research center on the east end. It fell into the water. The west end is especially vulnerable.
It washes over in every storm. Like I say, the west end goes under in a heavy dew. Dauphin may be especially vulnerable to storms and rising water, but it is hardly alone. Now, with the planet warming, sea levels rising, and oceans heating up, providing more fuel, hurricanes are likely to grow even larger and more destructive in the future, says Kerry Emanuel, one of the leading atmospheric scientists and hurricane experts, based at MIT.
By the next century, a Category 5 hurricane — such as Dorian, which devastated the Bahamas this week — could go from being a one-inyear storm to a one-inyear storm.
Unsurprisingly, bigger hurricanes cause more damage, and with more property than ever lining the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the risk of future epochal storms is only likely to increase.
Hurricane Katrina damaged or destroyed of the houses on the west end of Dauphin Island in Much of that damage will be along the heavily developed but low-lying barrier islands of Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, where millions of second homes, investment properties and beach houses crowd the coast. The Gulf states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas are especially vulnerable because of their shallow profiles, heavy rates of erosion, and lack of sand dunes and other natural defenses.
On Dauphin Island, most of the income comes from the or so houses on the two-mile-long west end, nearly all of which are rental properties and vacation homes owned by absentee landlords. Critically, the owners pay a special fee to the town. Following each big storm, Collier and Dauphin Island homeowners follow a familiar script. First, they plead for disaster aid from the federal government.
Then they file claims with the federal flood insurance program. It is unclear how much federal aid Dauphin Island has received over time. Crozier told me it could be higher yet. The property owners want to be left alone, except when there is a storm. Then they want the taxpayers to pay for new roads and bridges and sand and [to] help them rebuild. Two days after the September storm, Carter flew over the coast to see the damage firsthand and to reassure Alabamans that the federal government had their backs.
It was part of a standing tradition among presidents. According to press releases, at the time of his visit he promised to restore Dauphin Island and the rest of the Gulf Coast. Millions went to Dauphin Island to repair roads, cart away debris, and help year-round homeowners pay bills while they rebuilt their homes.
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