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Beyond the Seawall: Technology and the Future of Coastal Resilience
Jeffrey Teo, Sea Ahead
The Coast Is Under Pressure
On the weekend before St. Patrick’s Day, Boston braced for yet another compounding event: flood watches, high-wind warnings, and 1 to 3 inches of rain falling on ground already saturated from snowmelt, with gusts of 50 to 60 mph expected from Essex County down to Cape Cod (Noyes, 2026). No single element was catastrophic, but together they were the kind of routine emergency that coastal New England now plans around. Boston recorded 19 days of high-tide flooding last year and leads the entire Northeast in NOAA's annual flood outlook (Moran, 2024). By 2050, the city could see 50 to 70 flood days annually (Conservation Law Foundation,2022).
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