Extreme weather is upending lives in the West. 'You walk around with this vague sense of terror.'
Updated at Share This Embers blow across a field as the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, burns in Doyle, California, on July 9. | Noah Berger, AP (CNN) — It was the heat, in part, that pushed Eric Beck to leave Los Angeles. He had built a successful career in the TV and film industry over 42 years, and he said it was a grueling decision. But as a 65-year-old with diabetes and an elevated risk for health complications in the city’s more frequent heatwaves, he chose to go. He moved to Portland, Oregon, three years ago. Beck felt it was a smart decision given the city’s h...
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