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on magazines segment you're going to be talking with national geographic environmental writer sarah gibbens, who is here to discuss her recent piece examining the nexus between climate change and the rising costs of natural disasters. good morning. guest: good morning, thanks for having me. host: first of all, what made you interested in this subject, and in your piece he featured lake charles, louisiana. why there? guest: i was in lake charles just a few days after hurricane laura hit on august 27 of last year. as a climate reporter i had covered hurricane seasons since 2016 or 2017, so a few years. it is always a similar pattern, where we as reporters look at a city that has been hit by a hurricane for a week, maybe two weeks, and we move on to the next story, but being in lake charles and meeting so many of the really interesting people who lived there and who had been so badly impacted by what was just a catastrophic storm, i was really curious about what it really took to recover from a hurricane, not just the week or two after when you're waiting for electricity to be restored, but in