This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español, and has been translated from Spanish.
“Wake up! The sea is taking it all away, it’s taking it all away!” were the first cries Claudia Ramón heard that night, when a fierce wave lashed her town. “It was my cousin who warned me, and I ran to take out my personal things. If she hadn’t grabbed my arm tightly, the wave would have rolled me over too,” says the young woman standing on the rubble in the sand.
Where the family bodega used to stand there’s now only a huge sinkhole. In the background there’s the squawking of seagulls and a calm, silent
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