"Trump Voters In Storm-Ravaged County Confront Climate Change"

"PORT ARTHUR, Texas — The church was empty, except for the piano too heavy for one man to move. It had been 21 days since the greatest storm Wayne Christopher had ever seen dumped a year’s worth of rain on his town, drowning this church where he was baptized, met his high school sweetheart and later married her.

He had piled the ruined pews out on the curb, next to water-logged hymnals and molding Sunday school lesson plans and chunks of drywall that used to be a mural of Noah’s Ark. Now he tilted his head up to take in the mountain of rubble, and Christopher, an evangelical Christian and a conservative Republican, considered what caused this destruction: that the violent act of nature had been made worse by acts of man.

'I think the Lord put us over the care of his creation, and when we pollute like we do, destroy the land, there’s consequences to that,' he said. 'It might not catch up with us just right now, but it’s gonna catch up. Like a wound that needs to be healed.'"

Claire Galofaro reports for the Associated Press October 17, 2017.