Every July, my street in Lekki becomes a river. We wade through waist-deep water. We lose furniture. We catch infections. The government does nothing. The estate managers collect service charge and disappear. We are left to build our own sandbag defenses. This is not weather. This is failed urban planning. We pay millions for property that becomes a swimming pool annually. Why do Lagosians normalize this annual trauma? Is it resilience or learned helplessness? Flood survivors, how do you copy?
