Climate crisis, creaky infrastructure blamed for Hurricane Ida havoc

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Hurricane Ida's remnants bring to attention New York City's non-resilient infrastructure and heavy impact of climate crisis

New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were the hardest hit by Ida, which ravaged the southern state of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast earlier in the week before sweeping northeast.

The extreme weather, combined with a lack of preparation, stretched the United States' biggest city to breaking point."It's no big surprise that the city seems to break down every time there's a big storm," said Jonathan Bowles, executive director of the think-tank Center for an Urban Future. Nicole Gelinas, an urban economics expert at the Manhattan Institute, another think-tank, said New York's infrastructure "was not built for seven inches of rainfall in a few hours."

Similarly transformative infrastructure projects –– rather than simply rebuilding –– will have to become the new norm, he said, pushing for passage of his giant $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill in Congress. Three people were killed in the New York suburb of Westchester, while another five died in Pennsylvania and one –– a state trooper –– in Connecticut, officials said.

 

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