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Sat, 12/04/2021 - 6:53am

Getty Images Earlier this year, my family moved from a New York City apartment into a New Jersey house.  Four days later, we got a flash-flood warning from Hurricane Ida. Then our basement was underwater. The flood was a stark message for me: Unless we take climate action, this will only happen more. We moved into our new house on a sweet suburban block in New Jersey on the last Sunday in August.

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