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Get Off the Beach? Hell No. Why Shore People Don't Get Climate People
2014-10-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: When Hurricane Sandy came, Deborah Star Reed stayed home. Irene, the year before, had been over-hyped. Her 1919 concrete house was left unscathed by Donna in 1960 and the Big One of 1938. So, on Oct. 29, 2012, the retired construction worker was munching on spare ribs with a friend, having ignored the evacuation warnings, when the first wave crashed into her home at the edge of New Yorks Jamaica Bay. Hours later, hip-deep in water next to a bobbing piano, she began to pray. Reed is still...
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