Will climate change put Chicago at higher risk for hurricanes?
CHICAGO – Historic Hurricane Milton slammed into and through Florida earlier this month, the fastest on record to intensify into Category 5 in the Gulf of Mexico.Milton ravaged the heart of Florida just two weeks after unprecedented Helene stretched over 500 miles from Tallahassee to the Southern Appalachians. The two hurricanes killed over 250 people, decimating infrastructure and cutting off communities from access to resources.
'For these rapidly intensifying storms, you don't have a lot of lead time to evacuate people. I mean, it's a compounding disaster that is going to cause a lot more economic harm,' Nesbitt said. In addition to the immediate impacts, there are other ripple effects to the supply chain and resources. Farmers in Central Illinois get most of their phosphate, a crop nutrient, from plants in Tampa and Orlando.
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