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Residents help a young child while trying to cross a road damaged by El Niño rains in Tula, Tana River county in Kenya on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023.
Residents help a young child while trying to cross a road damaged by El Niño rains on November 25, 2023.
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Barb Grant holding image of building flooding.
Barb Grant still recalls how devastating it was when floods hit the Iowa nonprofit she runs.

This article is part of Insider's "The True Cost of Extreme Weather" project. Read more here.

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Florida streets flooded during Hurricane Ian
Vehicles make their way through a flooded area after Hurricane Ian passed through the area on September 29, 2022 in Fort Myers, Florida.
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A house on fire being circled by vultures while money falls from the sky
Disaster vultures are investors who take advantage of people who lost their homes to natural disasters in order to turn a profit.

As Hawaii mourns its dead, investors are swooping in to make a quick buck

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A comic strip of a house inside of a burning house unbothered
As the risk of wildfires and storms grows, owning a home is getting riskier — and it's showing up in the insurance market.

Cinda Larimer was delivering newspapers on a cool November morning in Paradise, California, when she noticed something softly float down from the sky: ash.

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Woman drives her car in a flooded road in Florida.
Frequent flooding has direct and indirect consequences on roads and traffic: while some roads flood and become impracticable, others see traffic clogs and delays as drivers take alternative routes.
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photo composite of aerial view of waves crashing onto a shore crowded with colorful umbrellas
Climate change is making disasters like hurricanes more devastating and frequent, and Floridians are already being forced to flee.

The state's climate exodus has already begun

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A Florida road flooded during Hurricane Ian during a sunny day, with a yellow sign that reads
The impact on roads and traffic of was about $1.5 billion worth of damage in 2020. By 2050, it could be as high as $37 billion.