in the state. teams are using trucks and boats to navigate flooded neighborhoods. some armed with chab chain saws to clear debris trapping people in their homes. 1 million people are without power right now as a result of incidents like this, where an electrical tower was left just utterly crumpled by the storm. now, it could take days or weeks even for power to be fully restored which is, obviously, ominous and terrible for a number of reasons. setting aside the massive inconvenience and the potential danger from the southern heat, which is very real. there is also the brutal reality of the coronavirus which has been ravaging louisiana. in one icu, doctors and nurses were forced to manually pump air into patients' lungs after a generator failure caused their ventilators to shut off. reminder the virus does not pause for natural disasters. and so, medical professionals are left balancing a once-in-a-century pandemic on top of our changing climate, which makes extreme-weather events both more common and more dangerous. sherry fink is a "new york