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As we continue to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, we speak with Manuel Ivan Guerrero, a freshman at the University of Central Florida and an organizer with the Sunrise Movement, who says young people are extremely worried about the impact of the climate crisis on their communities. “This just has me more scared for what the future’s going to look like in Florida,” he says. “We’re having these thousand-year storms every three, four years now.”, where he frequently writes about climate.
And what we’re really fighting for is to make the Biden-Harris administration focus on this as a climate issue and to make it a top three priority for them in this coming election, because we need a candidate that’s really fighting for climate. And that’s why we’re calling for this hurricane town hall specifically in North Carolina, probably the most affected state by hurricanes at the moment, a state, in cities, that 10 years ago would have been unimaginable to have flooding in Asheville.
But we have pretty good preliminary estimates for the damages from Hurricane Helene, and those are at the moment about $175 billion. That is an enormous number.
Over the last few years, we’ve seen historic losses across the insurance business, driven in part by climate change. And in places like Florida and California, it’s really becoming quite unclear who will be protecting those who need protection. If your house is flooded or destroyed, who will help you rebuild? In North Carolina, we saw the intense center of Hurricane Helene flooding Asheville and its county, Buncombe County. Less than 1% of the homes in that county carry flood insurance.
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