The broken record that is climate change. It’s borderline comical.

That is, until you’re in the path of a category 4 hurricane. Natural disasters of high intensity are increasing dramatically. Locations like Asheville, and Augusta, were without power for weeks at a time, and cities in Florida (like Naples) were flooded or even completely submerged. The climate change divide can't wait to be addressed until it comes to your own front door. Many cities are ill prepared for these levels of natural disaster and the solution isn't in post disaster solutions, but in preemptive climate policy.

 The influx of extreme natural disasters, and global warming are confronting people with the stark fact that it is ultimately all of us who pay the price both financially, and metaphorically for these disasters. Devastation and displacement follows natural disasters like this all of the time. And for many who either can't afford home insurance, or whose claims are being denied regularly the only alternative is to sleep under uprooted trees.