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When disaster strikes, their family odyssey turns into a desperate mission to survive.
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Kathleen Rellihan, Outside, 28 Dec. 2025
And with that come tough decisions, official acknowledge, especially once disaster strikes.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 16 Dec. 2025
But until decision-makers address the underlying policies that create housing scarcity in safe areas and fail to protect people in vulnerable ones, climate change will continue to reshape who gets to live where – and who gets left behind when the next disaster strikes.
—Ivis Garcia, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2025
In her debut novel Tilt, voted one of Scientific American’s best fiction books of 2025, Pattee explores this hypothetical day through the eyes of Annie, a Portland local who is nine months pregnant and shopping for cribs at IKEA when disaster strikes.
—Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 9 Dec. 2025
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Kathleen Rellihan, Outside, 28 Dec. 2025
And with that come tough decisions, official acknowledge, especially once disaster strikes.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 16 Dec. 2025
But until decision-makers address the underlying policies that create housing scarcity in safe areas and fail to protect people in vulnerable ones, climate change will continue to reshape who gets to live where – and who gets left behind when the next disaster strikes.
—Ivis Garcia, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2025
In her debut novel Tilt, voted one of Scientific American’s best fiction books of 2025, Pattee explores this hypothetical day through the eyes of Annie, a Portland local who is nine months pregnant and shopping for cribs at IKEA when disaster strikes.
—Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 9 Dec. 2025
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“Disaster strikes.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disaster%20strikes. Accessed 2 Jan. 2026.
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