By Cari Kimball, Missoula Current
Photo by Anne Hedges.
As Sarah Lundquist from Families for a Livable Climate remarked in her recent Op Ed, the late July storm that blasted through Missoula was a reminder that climate change can look different from polar bears adrift on shrinking icebergs thousands of miles away.
In Montana, it can look like a freezer of spoiled food from storm-induced power outages, Flathead cherries wiped out by abnormal freezing events, and weeks of our summer hunkered indoors to avoid excessive smoke and heat.
Fortunately, climate change can also look like resilience – Missoulians came together to clean up downed trees, neighbors helped neighbors, and workers busted their butts to repair power lines and restore electricity. What a monumental community effort and a testament to what can be accomplished when we work together.
