Streets are flooding. Houses are crumbling. Communities are disappearing. Climate change is as much an infrastructure issue as a weather issue. Many cities around the world are experiencing extreme flooding, but don't have the right infrastructure to handle it. Weather disasters can also contribute to an acute housing crisis and severe financial hardship for individuals who have lost their homes. With more places experiencing multiple extreme weather crises at once, do we need a total overhaul of our existing systems?  Extreme weather events have been in the news nearly daily these last few months. In cities around the world, rivers have burst their banks, homes and other buildings have flooded and crops and livestock have been destroyed. This summer alone, death totals are more than 300 in China, almost 200 in Germany and at least 61 in the United States. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said this week that the the last 50 years of extreme weather events have cost the wor...