Buffalo Tests its Status as a Climate RefugeAt a Puerto Rican cultural center on Buffalo’s West Side, young dancers in bright skirts swayed to the sound of drums in an Afro-Carribean tradition carried across generations. Eighteen-year-old Darnel Davila maintained a steady beat, striking his drum in time with each snap of the skirts. Davila and his family came to Buffalo in 2017 after Hurricane Maria, one of the deadliest disasters in Puerto Rico’s history. It ripped through his hometown of Loiza, tearing the roofs off of buildings, and caused the longest blackout in U.S. history. Um, it snows a lot in those two cities – though the wackadoodles did call the last few massive blizzards in Buffalo as proof of ‘climate change.’