The City of Boston tested flood barriers that may be removed in an emergency on Friday.
These are the same barriers that prevented a Tampa hospital from being submerged by storm surge during Hurricane Helene’s damage.
On Friday, buildings and municipal employees in Boston tested raising the makeshift flood barriers under bright skies as part of the city’s inaugural Deployables Day training and demonstration event.
“Extreme weather events like hurricanes and flooding are becoming more intense and more frequent. The City’s priority is to ensure that our residents, neighborhoods, businesses and infrastructure are safe today and in the future. Deployables Day is one more step in building the resilient Boston we need,” Mayor Michelle Wu stated.
After being planned weeks in advance for National Emergency Preparedness Month, the flood barriers that were erected and taken down in Boston on Friday are only meant to be a temporary fix.
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The long-term objective is to modify aging infrastructure so that it can withstand increasingly frequent and potent threats brought on by climate change.
“We are in the process of figuring out the steps to get you to be a more resilient community,” Wu stated.
