On Wednesday morning, temperatures in Madison, Wisconsin, hovered in the negative 20s, the coldest the city has been in more than two decades. The University of Wisconsin canceled classes, the public library closed, and some bars even shut down. The city offered free bus rides and placed extra warming buses at transfer stations so that passengers wouldn’t have to wait outside. On Facebook, the Madison Police Department joked that it was canceling all criminal activities. It advised would-be criminals to watch Netflix instead.
But even as the city hunkered down for another frigid day, officials and experts were already thinking ahead, trying to anticipate what challenges the shifting environment would throw at them next. It’s not an easy…
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