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Like many coastal communities, Provincetown is searching for ways to help property owners prevent devastating flooding from more frequent and more intense storms — a major consequence of climate change.

The state wants you to upload pictures of flooding, storm damage, beach erosion and tides.

The Truro Zoning Board of Appeals ruled that the owners of the teetering property will have to seek permission from the town’s building inspector, even as winter storms threaten to further erode the dune and send the house crashing to the beach below.

In the first week of February, Peter McMahon had the worst morning. He tried to make coffee with his tap water—and realized it was salt water. It was a…