Mark is a genius when it comes to engineering and building the raft and takes on quite a bit of the construction design of Leah's Folly, the name of their raft. Andrew is quickly whisked away to the Navy so his part in the story is mostly over the radio communicating with his family.
We learn about Liz's family, her mother Leah and two brothers, Mark and Andrew. As we are told the story, we are taken into the past and see things from the point of view of young Liz with the occasional commentary from the older and wiser Liz. This story is told from the perspective of an older Liz who has been asked to tell her story 15 years after the happenings of the Big Flood.
Raft People shares with us the story of young Liz and her family and neighbor's as they build their own raft and prepare for the coming floods to take them to the "up above. Heading out of town to higher ground up North is futile as the roads have become a parking lot and it seems the only thing left to do is to become.Raft People. Of course, the government attempting to downplay the event causes hundreds of thousands of people to not worry about evacuating until it's too late. This accident causes the Gulf to rise in sea level, add to this event the melting of glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic and the waters continue to rise causing massive devastation. This small group of neighbors decides to become Raft People to escape before their Houston suburb floods.Review 1: An accident during a drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico breaks off a rock shelf exposing a subterranean sea. They have to reply upon the natural talents of Liz’s younger brother, Mark, a middle aged former female special forces diver named Shirley, and an eighty year old retired naval engineer. Liz’s family finds a website called “” which coordinates the efforts of ordinary people who plan to construct homemade crafts in order to float out of the disaster. The military cannot cope with millions of refugees, and the wealthy or connected rush to berths on secret ocean habitats. The suburban family, their neighbors, and billions of people all over the world are stuck between the rising seas and snarled land escape routes. But now the water keeps rising, and her mother, Leah, has bigger problems than Liz. She lives on the Texas Coastal Plain with her single mother, brilliant older brother, and socially awkward but clever younger brother. Before the Big Flood, Liz Green worried more about hiding detention notes, the activities of her rebellious friends, and the onset of mental illness than global climate change.
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