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A summer's worth of rain nearly 40 centimeters over the course of 24 hours flooded the streets of Northern Texas.

Hurricane Ian made landfall tied as the fifth most powerful storm ever to hit the United States.

A category 4 hurricane maximum sustained winds 150 miles an hour.

The first week of summer shattering records as an unrelenting heat wave pushes into the South.

This is OnPoint. I'm Megna Chacrabardi.

As the effects of climate change grow ever more inescapable,

cities find themselves uniquely vulnerable.

They're also key contributors of carbon emissions.

They account for more than 70% of CO2 emissions across the globe, according to the World Bank.

So that gives new urgency to the old Think Global Act local cliche.

And cities are acting across the United States.

More than 600 municipal governments have drafted climate change plans to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for more extreme weather.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin is one of them.

It'll be such a cleaner place for everybody as we increase population and build a city that we want to see.

I think we go from surviving to thriving.

That's District 14 Alderwoman Marina Dmitriyevich.

Last week on television station WISN.

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