Extreme weather survivors
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How can we quantify the real human impact of extreme weather? According to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, 2024 alone saw 27 individual weather and climate disasters with at least $1 billion in damages, trailing only the record-setting 28 events analyzed in 2023. Across hurricanes, wildfires, floods, tornados, and more the impacts of the climate crisis are apparent, but where do we begin to measure the real toll, these disasters take on the people affected and how do those folks carry on?
In the latest episode of our podcast 50 Shades of Green, we speak to three members of Extreme Weather Survivors, an organization dedicated to building community, providing support and training, and advocating for change for all those impacted by extreme weather. Phil Kehoe joins Executive Director and Co-Founder Chris Kocher, Melissa Whittaker, a small business owner from Montpelier, Vermont, and Erica Solove, a psychologist from Boulder, Colorado in a discussion about what it means to make connections, stay resilient, and create positive change in the wake of the climate crisis.
Extreme Weather Survivors provides no-cost trauma-informed support programming in English and in Spanish in order to:
- Foster peer to peer connection and disaster mentorship.
- Connect survivors to storytelling and advocacy opportunities.
- Support the millions of Americans demanding clean energy options and policies.
- Empower those impacted by extreme weather to be storytellers and changemakers in the fight to build resilient communities.
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In 2024, the United States experienced 27 separate weather or climate disasters that each resulted in at least $1 billion in damages. NOAA map by NCEI.