![]() ![]() Army Corps of Engineers is spending tens of millions of dollars building a seawall to reduce storm surge and flooding risks for Atlantic City’s downtown and its towering casinos, five of which have closed in the past four years. Two miles east of Arizona Avenue, the U.S. “You watch it come in and it meets in the middle of the house - and there’s nothing you can do.” “It comes in the front door, the back door, and then from the bottom of the house, in through the sides,” DeDomenicis said. ![]() They’ve seen floods worsen as the seas have risen, as the land beneath them has sunk, and as local infrastructure has rotted away. Her husband walked a mile to his job at Bally’s Casino until he retired in January. ![]() She used to work as a restaurant server now she’s a school crossing guard. It hits the door.”ĭeDomenicis has lived in this house since 1982, a few hundred feet from a bay. “When somebody comes by in a car, it splashes up. She was tracking how many more inches it would take to inundate the ground floor. She counted down until the tide would start to ebb, using a yardstick to measure the height of floodwaters climbing her patio stairs. ![]() “It wasn’t bad when we first moved in here-the flooding wasn’t bad,” DeDomenicis said on a stormy morning in March, after helping her husband put furniture on blocks. The wake from the passing Honda buffeted low brick fences lining the tidy homes of working-class residents of this failing casino city, pushing floodwaters into Eileen DeDomenicis’s living room. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-A driver plowed a sedan forcefully up Arizona Avenue, which had flooded to knee height during a winter storm as high tide approached. ![]()
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