Torrential, record-breaking rain? Flash floods? Tornado warnings? <\/p>\n\n
Nope. Nope. Nope. <\/p>\n\n
Not in New York City. Right? At least, there didn\u2019t use to be? Definitely, not often. <\/p>\n\n
But, also, actually, yes, in New York City now<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n And, almost certainly, again some other day sooner than we\u2019re prepared for thanks to the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis that is bringing extreme weather events to \u2014 and through \u2014 our front doors, wherever in the world they may be.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n Just days after Hurricane Ida \u2014 a storm that strengthened quickly thanks in part to climate change<\/a> \u2014 made landfall in Louisiana with Category 4 winds<\/a> gusting up to 150 miles per hour, the remnants of the storm besieged the Northeast<\/a> of the United States. <\/p>\n\n The images from New York City revealed both the severity of the storm but also the ways in which infrastructure in communities around the world is ill-prepared<\/a> for the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events caused by fossil fuel-driven climate change. <\/p>\n\n