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ZERO BIAS: A CQ Editorial

Because We Are a Community …

his month’s editorial is being written in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, which packed a one-two punch on its way from the Gulf of Mexico to the North Atlantic. First, it came ashore in Louisiana and Mississippi as a Category 4 hurricane, causing over two dozen deaths and massive damage there, then dumped heavy rain across the interior of the country before picking up more moisture from the Atlantic as it approached the coast and unleashing record amounts of rain in New Jersey and New York. The resulting floods, unseen in the New York City anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City, Washington, DC, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. And they all intertwine.

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