Johanna Neumann writes for the Environment America Research & Policy Center:
In 2021, with Hurricane Ida bearing down on New Orleans, Pastor Gregory Manning of the Broadmoor Community Church was forced to cross state lines and evacuate to Houston, 347 miles away. Manning and his congregation were no strangers to extreme weather, flooding and power outages. During Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, filthy water submerged the lower half of the church’s stained glass windows for weeks.
Fast forward 15 years, and as Manning sheltered from the ravages of Ida, he found himself reaching out to political and faith leaders with a fundamental question: what should we do to serve our communities under these conditions? Manning reminisced about those days recently to a group of advocates and organizers visiting his church.
Read the full article, with original photographs, on the Environment America website
