our coastal location and low-lying land also makes the Gulf South ground zero for this nation's climate disasters. - Colette Pichon Battle

I think that’s the part that scares me the most. We’re losing generations of people who know the anatomy of these things. And we’re getting new people into our space who have no clue what a hurricane is, and the hurricanes that we know to describe are not the ones we’re facing now.

it was the most honest answer I’d ever gotten.

And that was a moment where you sort of have this — it’s surreal. You don’t — who can believe your land won’t be there anymore? Most people still can’t conceptually understand that.