How disasters and extreme weather events can make housing even more unaffordable | CNN Business

Boulder County, Colorado CNN  — 

Grass fires aren’t out of the ordinary here in the high desert foothills, so Allison Bequette wasn’t terribly surprised when one forced her and other drivers on a detour.

What was striking to her, however, was the sheer intensity and size of the flames. “As tall as a house,” she recalled.

But on this second to last day of 2021, which was yet another in a long line of unseasonably dry ones in the region, hurricane-force winds shot down the mountain and whipped up those flames into a “suburban firestorm,”

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