Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay is slowly disappearing as sea rises and erosion hits the shoreline. The population has dwindled, but the people still living there say they're there to stay.

Smith Point Sea Rescue is the only volunteer rescue unit on the Chesapeake Bay, and organization leaders believe they are one of only two such organizations on the East Coast.

We'll be posting locations to pick up sandbags ahead of Hurricane Milton, which became a named storm on Saturday.

From 1964: “Making his way home by an uncommon route gave him the feeling that he was a pilgrim, an explorer, a man with a destiny.” ...

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