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‘It is devastating’: unprecedented floods in US strain small businesses

As the climate crisis causes heavier and more frequent floods across the US, one in four small businesses are one disaster away from shutting down

Alejandra Palma lives in perpetual fear of the next storm.

“We are constantly checking the weather,” said Palma, who co-owns Root Hill Cafe in Brooklyn’s low-lying Gowanus neighborhood. “If we see that there’s a hurricane in Florida, it’s like, oh my God, please let it not come here.”

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