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How Disabled People Are Left Behind in Climate Disasters
As Hurricane Matthew bore down on the Atlantic Coast in October 2016, Mary Fashik was forced to leave her home in Brunswick, Georgia, for a communal shelter in Valdosta, about a two-hour drive inland.Fashik is an ambulatory wheelchair user, and the cots at the emergency shelter were not designed with bodies like hers in mind. She could not lie down on the cot she had been allocated. The following night, when a good Samaritan offered her an air mattress and she needed help transferring to and from it, she learned that shelter staff were not trained to help transfer a wheelchair user. During botched transfers, Fashik sustained bruises under her arms and injuries to her hip and knee that requir

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