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A Maine couple who described themselves as “climate refugees” after moving from Texas found human feces on the porch of their new home in Bangor, an incident that quickly drew ridicule from conservative commentators.
In an article published in the Bangor Daily News, the couple, Shawn and Sara Good, wanted to organize the discovery of feces and signs of a man lying on their patio furniture as a fair trade to escape the “dangerous” weather that hit them in Texas. The article focuses on a couple who move to Bangor because of their concern about climate change. The Goods said they fled Austin after experiencing four tragedies in the past five years.
“When I look at the world news, I’m lucky enough that the biggest event I’ve ever been in is someone sleeping on my porch,” Sara told the Bangor Daily News.
Local and national voices criticized the couple and the Bangor Daily News for creating a scene in a city struggling with homelessness, camping out in the downtown area. The Bangor City Council passed an ordinance Monday banning the storage of personal property on the side of the road in an effort to scale back the streets.
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People march in New York City on September 20, 2019, during a strike demanding action on the climate crisis inspired by activist Greta Thunberg. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Maine Republican state Rep. Reagan Paul suggested the Bangor Daily News article read more like satire from the Babylon Bee than a hard-hitting news story.
“This is real ‘news’ from the Bangor Daily News – which takes the reality show as comforting proof that Maine is paradise,” Paul wrote in X. “Most of us already know – but for a few delays still treating the Bangor Daily News as serious journalism: when your paper has to roll human excrement into the entrance of the heart and stop the emotional story and take the fun story away” seriously as journalism.”
Investigative journalist Steve Robinson weighed in, suggesting that the couple met a better fate than another Maine couple who was shot and killed in front of their two children six months after leaving Texas in 2023.
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Protesters from advocacy groups and the homeless community gather outside Portland City Hall to protest budget cuts to house the homeless overflow in Portland, ME on Tuesday, May 12, 2015. (Whitney Hayward/Portland Press Herald)
“By Maine human s— standards the door is pretty good considering the last couple from Texas who moved here was killed by a rap artist who wanted to rap in front of their young children,” Robinson wrote in X. “Liberty officials call this restorative justice.”
In recent years, Texans have faced Winter Storm Uri, which caused power outages across the state, deadly floods that claimed 130 lives last year, Hurricane Beryl, and extreme heat.
Conservative analyst Dana Loesch, who lives in Texas, said every state in the United States could experience severe weather.
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“It’s in Texas,” Loesch said on his show. “Texas gets hurricanes. Texas gets floods.”
“They moved from Texas because it’s hot here,” Loesch continued. “That’s your business. You should have known that.”
An aerial photo shows flood damage along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, Texas, on July 10, 2025. (Gerald Herbert/AP)
Climate change is increasingly shaping where Americans choose to live. A Forbes study found that 30% of homeowners have moved as a result.
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Columbia University professor Alexander de Sherbinin suggested the US could see “significant movement” as people seek to evacuate to avoid extreme weather.
“Northern states could see an influx of people, because their summers will still be hot and their winters will be mild,” de Sherbinin told Columbia Magazine.
