Hurricane Ida brought record rainfall and lethal flooding on 9/1/2021 across the Eastern seaboard. A dozen people died in their basements in New York City. I had been thinking a lot about those dozen people and the multitude and complicated set of long-standing social and environmental issues, decisions, politics, injustices, infrastructure, regulations, climate change and more that led to their deaths. And then on 9/4, I learned that my own parents were dealing with their