Cecilia Franco and her husband Miguel ran out of time last September when their nursing home’s air conditioning malfunctioned in the wake of Hurricane Irma. The elderly couple, in their 90s, died from the sweltering heat that followed. Twelve others who had been living at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills in Florida were also gone within the month.
As hurricane gusts and historic flooding forced their way across a swath of the Southeast in 2017, the frailest Americans were sometimes left with little defense against nature. The failures of the system led to rallying cries and federal and state ...
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