Headline: WTMJ, 9/4/2023
Scripps News first met Judith and Doug Saum in 2021. They had just moved to New Hampshire from Reno, Nevada, to escape the growing threat of wildfires. But this couple, both in their 70s, are now finding out that hardly any place in this country is safe from the impacts of climate change.
"Certainly bottom line is you can't escape climate change. I never thought the smoke would follow us here," Saum said.
Over the summer, New Hampshire, like many states, was plagued with wildfire smoke from Canada. Then in July, devastating flash flooding hit parts of Vermont and New Hampshire. [emphasis added]
"It's frightening. I think it's frightening. It's like those recurring nightmares where you get out of one jam and in you're in a new jam," Doug Saum explained.
When Doug and Judith Saum first made the news.
Headline: NPR, 1/22/2021
Doug Saum says they call themselves climate migrants.
"We had the idea ... not necessarily that we were going to a place that would be forever untouched by climate change, but that we were getting out of a bad climate situation that was only likely to get worse," he says.
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