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How back-to-back hurricanes set off a year of compounding disasters for one city − and alarm bells about risks in a warming world

  • Written by Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Professor of Engineering and Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
imageRecovery from a hurricane gets even harder when more storms follow, as Lake Charles, La., residents saw.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Most Americans will remember 2020 as the year when the pandemic changed everything. But for Lake Charles, Louisiana, and its neighbors along the Gulf Coast, it was also the year of record-setting disasters, when...

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