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Monday, August 3Issue 43

Human StoriesMaricopa County found that in 72% of indoor heat deaths where an air conditioner was present, it wasn't working. The equipment was there. It just didn't protect anyone. We kept finding versions of that everywhere this week. Johnstown's Army Corps flood system performed exactly as designed in 1977 and 84 people still died, because the flood came from a watershed it was never built for. The question we couldn't put down: how do you know when the protection you're counting on actually covers what's coming?SUBSCRIBE

Past Articles

August — Issue #45

Parallel Assemblies

Eighty Acres Instead of Two Hundred

A Colorado rancher recalibrates water, feed, herd size, and neighbor obligations simultaneously as drought keeps shifting the math.

Parallel Assemblies

Thirty Feet from the Creek

Two families hit by the same Texas flood face divergent recoveries shaped by which resources existed to connect to.

Integration Portrait

The Cooling System of Cheryl Henderson

A Houston renter with COPD assembles daily livability from broken equipment, electric bills, bodily limits, and institutional timelines no one coordinates.