Another hurricane season begins after two of the most devastating seasons in recent memory, particularly for my home state of Louisiana.
On a recent trip back, as my flight descended into the New Orleans airport, I saw countless homes with blue tarps covering their roofs nine months after Hurricane Ida left a path of destruction from Louisiana’s bayou region to New York. People are staring down another season as they rebuild from those prior.
Ida, like Hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta, all rapidly intensified before landfall, fueled by the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Climate change is making hurricanes stronger, which is particularly concerning for communities in their path.
