The United Flooded States of America brings together communities across the country that experience chronic flooding. (Image courtesy if Harriet Festing)

‘I Flood and I Vote’

For this Lower Ninth Ward community leader, flooding is a political problem

By Rev. Richard Bell

We are a community that is shaped by floods. The foundations of our homes are warped by floodwaters and our friendships are strengthened by them. But politics has not yet caught up to the reality of threats of flooding that we are living with. That needs to…