Rising temperatures are strengthening the destructive force of wildfires, hurricanes and floods, putting tens of millions of Americans at risk.
Tens of thousands of Americans are already paying a high price, their lives shattered by climate calamities.
Here are twenty-one of their stories, and more.
Wildfire
Paradise, CA
November 2018

The Common Language of Loss
Essay

Stephen Murray
How Are We Going to Get Out?

Sam Gronseth
The Most Known Choral Melody in the World

Randy Larsen
These Are the Good Old Days

Daniel Hill
Anyone Who Wasn’t Scared, Wasn’t Here

Holly Ratliff
I Need a Place to Heal

Wally Sipher
My Sister Judy

Brian Alderman
More Fire Than We Could Deal With

Wildfires and Climate Change
What the Science Says
Hurricane
Mexico Beach, FL
October 2018

The Sounds That Trigger Trauma
Essay

Mayor Al Cathey
I Never Thought This Would Happen

Tan Smiley
I Could Not Believe What My Eyes Had Seen

Brittany Pitts
I Have to Hold on to This Baby

Pastor Chester Davis
In a Time of Trouble, Let’s Wait on God

Hal Summers
I Thought I Was the Only Person Alive

Gina Vicari
They Didn’t Even Find Her for Days and Days

Shawna & Peggy Wood
Goodbye to the Grand Old Lady

Hurricanes and Climate Change
What the Science Says
Flood
Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska
March 2019

The Bonds Between People and Animals
Essay

Louis Byford
I’m a Determined Man

Kim & Kevin Johnson
We’re Not Going to Rebuild Here

Gabe Richardson
Everybody Lost Everything

Mike & Nancy Crosley
It’s Time to Get Outta Here

Clint Pischel
It Was Damn Near Instant

Merle Stuthman
She Was My Second Best Trophy Cow

John Davis
This Is Not Normal Weather
