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Gothamist: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the region, it brought devastating flooding and caused the deaths of at least 13 people in New York City, was a stark reminder about how much our infrastructure—and our elected officials—are unprepared for the climate crisis. But of course this isn’t just a NYC problem, something that became very apparent to Dutch photographer […]

The City: The unprecedented rainfall that remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped Wednesday night made New York City’s climate vulnerabilities starkly visible, less than two weeks after Tropical Storm Henri broke previous rain records. Boulevards across boroughs could’ve been mistaken for rivers. Yankee Stadium became a lake. Waterfalls cascaded into subway stations. The scenes were vastly different from those from the coastal flooding

NBC News:  J. Lee Driskell was already on the road from her home in Brooksville, Florida, to Louisiana in her camper — the “Hurricane Hilton,” as she calls it — when she got a call hiring her to bring crews to help clean up after Hurricane Ida.  It’s the kind of call that’s becoming more frequent.

POLITICO: New York City’s next mayor will face a growing emergency in the fight against climate change. The effects of global warming are already widespread and severe, according to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Flooded subway stations, heat emergencies and retreating coastlines are just a preview of the types of change city residents will continue to

Il Post: Tra il 25 e il 31 ottobre del 2012 un grande uragano, chiamato Sandy, colpì New York: circa 90mila edifici e le stazioni della metropolitana furono inondate, 2 milioni di persone e alcuni ospedali rimasero senza corrente elettrica e a Staten Island, l’isola che insieme al Bronx, al Queens, a Manhattan e a Brooklyn è