This is episode 4 of not built for this, unbuilding the terrace.

He had a reason, get back to like Charles. Lake Charles, Louisiana is a low-lying city in the southwest corner of a low-lying state.

It's right off I-10, about halfway between Baton Rouge and Houston.

And when I first pulled into town, the city was bigger than I was expecting. It was nighttime, and from a distance the skyline was lit up like some giant metropolis.

It's like a gleaming city. If you looked quickly, you might think you were looking at Manhattan.

But when you get a little closer, you realize those aren't skyscrapers lighting up the night.

It's just nothing but fossil fuel infrastructure. It's just a series of

refineries with lights all up and down the spires of these smoke stacks. It's pretty dramatic.

Lake Charles is a city built among petrochemical plants.

It's sometimes hard to tell where a neighborhood ends in a refinery begins.

Oil and gas companies are some of the largest employers in town,

but you don't have to work in the industry to feel its effects, the spills and the

fires and the high cancer rates. A lot of the gas that comes through this city

gets exported and burned overseas. But the impacts on the climate are felt right back

here in southwest Louisiana. Lake Charles is trying to recover from back to back hurricanes.

The first from... In recent years, Lake Charles has been... is trying to recover from back to back hurricanes.

In recent years, Lake Charles has been hit

with more big storms than just about any city in the country.

Well, here's a moniker no one wants,

America's most weather-battered city, yet it belongs to Lake Charles

Louisiana.

Even though we know intellectually that the burning of fossil fuels is making the weather

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