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L.A. County civil engineer Eden Ly shares how water may flow at a property below a steep hillside. (Kerjon Lee / L.A. County Department of Public Works)A pair of Los Angeles County engineers knocked on my door a couple of weeks ago and handed me a booklet about how to prepare for flooding and mudflows. They also told me they offer free, specific engineering advice for individual properties.I was definitely interested in this — I live in a neighborhood affected by the Eaton Fire, and the house I rent is tucked right against a steep hillside with vegetation that burned.A few days later, two engineers, as well as the county’s public information officer, showed up at my door.Eden Ly, a civil engineer with the county, looked up at the mountainside looming above my house.“This mountainside is very steep, and that's the scary part,” Ly said.The more recent the burn scar, the steeper the hillside and the closer your house is to it, the bigger the danger. The good thing, Ly said, is that much of the vegetation looked pretty recovered from the fire, so the roots should hold onto the dirt. And the property has a retaining wall that Ly said looks solid.L.A. County civil engineer Eden Ly, right, assesses a retaining wall behind the house of reporter Erin Stone in a neighborhood affected by a recent wildfire. (Kerjon Lee / L.A. County Department of Public Works)Before coming to do a scheduled assessment of a resident’s property, Ly said he and his team analyze all kinds of data to understand how water — and thus mud and debris — may flow there.“This will include a lot of geospatial information, a lot of mapping, such as topography,” Ly said. It also includes, Ly said, historical rain gauge data to understand how intense rain tends to be in different areas, soil types and more.So far this season, Ly and his team have knocked on the doors of over 700 homes — 233 homeowners have received walk-through assessments of their properties, said Kerjon Lee, a spokesperson for the county’s Public Works Department.“A lot of this data isn't public,” Ly said. "And even if it was public, how is the average Joe going to be able to understand what's going on? So our job is to try to bridge that gap.”By Ly’s analysis, the terrain above my place is gravelly and muddy, not big boulders that can tear through a house. So if the hill does slide, we should be spared something like the deadly mudslides Montecito experienced in 2018, after the Thomas Fire.“It's more of that kind of mud flow, that mud river that is more the concern in this case,” Ly said.He suggests various areas to strategically place plywood planks and sandbags. I’m a renter, so there’s not much else I can do.What if I have to leave?Then Ly pointed to a weak spot that could lead to mud flowing where we park our cars.“Heavy storm; we will probably recommend you try not to be there,” he said.In a strong storm like that, I expect my neighborhood will get evacuation warnings — at least.This winter, warnings or even orders to leave could become common.Half an inch of rainfall in less than an hour — or more than 3 to 4 inches in a day — can trigger debris flows after a recent wildfire.But that’s just a rule of thumb. As bare dirt becomes more saturated with back-to-back storms, less intense rainfall can be a trigger. So in addition to the engineering assessment and prep work, paying attention to forecasts and knowing how water flows where you live is key.“Our best advice is that you try to deflect and guide everything,” Ly said. But “it's Mother Nature; you can't stop it.”Talk to neighborsOverall, Ly tells me the swales my landlord built behind the house, and those my neighbors built, look like they’ll direct water and mud to the street, which is generally the goal.And that’s another piece of advice he gives — talk to my longtime neighbors, who have been through a storm or a few.Ly tells me his team will email a more detailed report once they dig into a little more data. That’s part of the free service for higher-risk homes.In addition to the plans I’ve got for our pets, important medications, possessions and other things I'll need if we have to evacuate, the county's assessment left me with valuable advice — and a little less anxiety too.

Amid rising costs in childcare, families are racking on credit card debt to pay. (Illustration composite by Sabrina Sanchez/LAist / Images via Canva)Genny Richard constantly thinks about her family’s finances.“The stress level has been immense,” she said. “Because childcare is our largest expense, that's been a big part of the reason.”Her 5-year-old son is in his third year at a full-time Montessori school in Irvine. It costs her family $2,020 a month — more than their rent. They don’t have family nearby to help with childcare.“We definitely had to start severely restricting our budget because of that cost,” Richard said. “We hardly eat out … we are part of a community garden, so we grow whatever vegetables we can on our own. … We only have one car.”They’re also staying put in their two-bedroom apartment, which is offered through UC Irvine, as they expand their family; Richard is due next month. “We’re probably in a smaller apartment than we actually need, especially with a baby on the way,” Richard said.Still, the bills began to pile up. Expenses like an unexpected trip to urgent care for an ear infection and Richard’s bout of pneumonia forced them to start putting costs onto their credit cards.“It'd be like, ‘Oh, this thing came up. This medical bill came up. We can't pay that because we have to pay childcare,'” Richard said. “The credit card debt just sort of happened over time.” And they had to deal with high interest rates. Genny Richard and her husband Fabricio have used credit cards to help pay for expenses because of the cost of their childcare. (Courtesy Genny Richard)Richard, who works at a nonprofit, and her husband, a postdoctoral fellow, have accrued tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt over the last several years. They had to pay for their son’s childcare directly from their bank accounts — so they shifted other costs to cards when they could.Their family is not alone — LAist heard from dozens of Southern California families who have had to go into debt to finance their childcare, or spend down their savings. Childcare can often be one of the largest costs in their monthly budgets, a problem reflected in state and national data:In L.A. County, childcare eats up nearly 20% of a median household income, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.In a 2026 survey by Rocket Mortgage, nearly 60% of respondents said they’ve gone into credit card debt or taken on loans due to child-related expenses. A voter poll conducted this past summer found that 3 in 4 respondents saw the cost of childcare for families with young children as a “crisis” or “major problem.” And according to an LAist review of data from the Federal Reserve, the median cost for parents who paid for 20 or more hours of childcare a week went up from $1,100 in 2023 to $1,517 in 2025 — a 38% increase.How big a problem is childcare debt?But unlike student loans and other forms of debt, good data on how much consumer debt families have because of childcare isn't available, said Chloe Gibbs, a policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research who studies the childcare market.She explained that while student loans are specifically financed, families are “shifting” spending and financing other household costs to pay for childcare and housing.“We can't really observe that in data because we just see the consumer debt, and we don't know the reason, the impetus behind families perhaps shifting to using credit cards to pay for expenses, so it's an area where we don’t know much,” she said. That affects the ability of researchers and policymakers to know how childcare challenges affect a family’s financial circumstances in both the short and long term, she said, and how they contribute to broader concerns about affordability.“I think it really is just reflective of the very fragmented landscape around early childhood care and that we just haven't made a concerted public effort in this space at all. So we've kind of left families to navigate and figure out these challenges on their own,” she said. “In the same way, we have just kind of let the data float around in no way that we actually sort of systemically measure and collect.”What is clear, Gibbs said, is that childcare costs have been rising higher than the rate of inflation, and it’s not surprising families are using credit cards to help with other living expenses. Childcare costs are up 6.6% since January 2025 — and up 31.3% since December 2019, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data compiled by the Economic Security Project.Why are costs rising?At the same time, childcare providers have been struggling. Childcare providers are among the lowest-paid professionals nationwide. The workforce has also been shrinking, limiting the availability of care, which economists say drives up prices.A national survey found that early educators are also grappling with the increasing cost of food, insurance and facilities costs in an industry that has already operated on thin margins. As a result, the majority of providers have had to pass along some costs to families by raising tuition, the survey found.“There's just a fundamental mismatch in this market,” Gibbs said. State and federal childcare subsidies are usually tied to income, Gibbs noted, so families who earn too much to qualify get little help.“It's insufficient in the current policy landscape because we still see lots of families, well up the income distribution, who face difficulties affording care,” Gibbs said.What it means to rely on a credit cardUnable to qualify for subsidies, Pamela Arciaga, a mother of a 4-year-old in Glendale, accrued about $20,000 in credit card debt because of her son’s preschool costs. As the sole earner for her household, she couldn’t afford a full-time preschool program, so her son attended three days a week at $1,000 a month. Her parents would help her watch her son on the days he wasn’t in school, driving all the way from Riverside and back.“What I relied on essentially was just my credit cards to pay for household groceries, sometimes to pay the water bill and power bill, because the preschool that he goes to, it's not as if I could have been on a payment plan, right? It was a monthly invoice that I had to pay so that he can stay in the program,” she said.Arciaga works in early childhood advocacy, and said she also knew the value of preschool education for kindergarten readiness. She saw it as a short-term sacrifice. “It was an investment for me to actually enroll him in preschool,” she said. But the cost is that she’s blown through her emergency savings and is working to pay her debt off now that her son started transitional kindergarten. She pays about $300 a month for after-school care now.“For emergencies, or anything like that, I still have to rely on the only credit card that I still have [with] a lot of credit on at this point or don't have a balance on,” she said.She said she wishes that elected officials paid more attention to the issue of childcare costs.“We have to work to keep the economy going,” Arciaga said. “However, we don't have any support, so it feels like we're paying double on, on top of taxes for not getting a lot of benefits.”How childcare costs affect families’ futuresFor Daniel Contreras and his wife, the cost of childcare has made them reimagine having a large family. “The reality sinks in pretty quickly when, you know, child number one comes in, and you're seeing your savings dissipate,” he said.When Contreras’ children, who are now 7 and 10, were in childcare full-time in Whittier, the family was paying about $3,000 a month. “It was a fourth of our checks, and we had a mortgage still to pay. We had other items, just to keep the lights on.”They couldn’t afford to save, and scaled back on buying new clothes for their kids. He said they avoided using credit cards to avoid falling into debt. His children are now older and in public school, but he said childcare still eats a large part of their monthly budget. After-school care costs $1,000 a month. “So we're still paycheck to paycheck,” Contreras said. “It's like a heavy weight that's being pushed down at this moment.” At times, he’d had to negotiate with his rental's management to avoid a late fee when behind on rent.He said he recently watched the gubernatorial debate and was disappointed not to hear very much about childcare.“I don't see anybody really pushing the envelope and supporting the workforce,” he said. “Because the workforce needs help.”Share your story

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El Niño 2026–2027: Seven Business Risks and How Companies Should Respond El Niño is more than a climate phenomenon. It is a potential business-disruption trigger that can affect worker safety, electricity reliability, water availability, commodity prices, global logistics and manufacturing quality. As the 2026–2027 event intensifies, companies face a critical question: Are their operations and supply chains prepared for climate-driven disruption? El Niño is a naturally occurring climate pattern characterized by unusually warm sea-surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. It forms part of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which also includes La Niña, its cooler counterpart, and neutral conditions. During El Niño, changes in tropical Pacific winds and ocean circulation alter the distribution of ocean heat, influencing atmospheric circulation and shifting rainfall and temperature patterns around the world. 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On 8 October 2026, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) forecast that sea-surface temperature anomalies in the central and eastern tropical Pacific could reach approximately +3.7°C above normal during October–December 2026. This would exceed the previous Niño 3.4 peak of +2.6°C, recorded from November 2015 to January 2016. WMO forecasts indicate a near-100% likelihood that the current event will persist through February 2027, potentially making it one of the strongest since at least 1950. [1] These figures refer to Pacific Ocean sea-surface temperature anomalies, not a 3.7°C rise in global air temperature. NOAA also uses the Relative Oceanic Niño Index (RONI), a different measure of El Niño strength, so its thresholds should not be compared directly with Niño 3.4 values. NOAA’s 8 October outlook separately indicated an 83% chance of a historic-strength event during October–December and a greater-than-83% chance of strong-to-very-strong conditions continuing through January–March 2027. These probabilities describe different outcomes and periods. [2] For business leaders, the priority is not to predict every weather event. It is to identify where climate stress could interrupt people, power, water, materials, production or deliveries, and strengthen resilience before disruption becomes a costly operational failure. The 1.63°C figure is a monthly global temperature anomaly, not evidence that the world has permanently crossed the Paris Agreement’s long-term warming threshold. Copernicus reported September as the second-warmest September on record and the second consecutive month in 2026 above 1.5°C relative to pre-industrial levels. [3] Seven business risks and how companies should respond 1. Extreme heat can threaten worker safety and productivity Extreme heat can increase heat illness, fatigue, errors and absenteeism. The risks are particularly relevant to factories, warehouses, logistics operations, construction and facilities with physically demanding work or inadequate cooling. Climate Impact Lab projects 451,000 excess heat-related deaths from June 2026 through February 2027, relative to a normal-year baseline. This is a model-based projection, not a count of deaths already recorded. Its analysis also indicates that heat-related impacts could continue beyond the forecast period. [4] For manufacturers, heat can affect shift patterns, equipment cooling, maintenance schedules and production targets. What companies should do Map heat exposure by facility, shift, task and supplier location. Implement practical heat-rest, hydration, ventilation and cooling measures. Establish heat alerts, escalation thresholds and emergency procedures. Check whether critical suppliers protect workers during extreme conditions. 2. Electricity reliability can become a production constraint High temperatures can increase electricity demand for cooling, while drought can constrain hydropower generation. Where the power system is already under pressure, manufacturers may face outages, higher energy costs or production restrictions. Northern Vietnam illustrates the economic consequences. A World Bank assessment of the 2023 power shortages reported a 5.4 GW supply deficit in May, estimated economic losses of approximately US$1.4 billion, or 0.3% of GDP, and revenue losses of up to 10% among some surveyed businesses. This is a historical example of infrastructure vulnerability, not a prediction that the same outcome will recur during the current El Niño. [5] What companies should do Map electricity dependence at critical facilities and suppliers. Review backup generation, storage, cooling and emergency shutdown arrangements. Determine whether backup systems can support critical production processes. Test outage scenarios in business-continuity plans. 3. Water stress can threaten semiconductor and industrial production Water is essential to semiconductor fabrication, electronics manufacturing, cleaning, cooling and chemicals processing. Shortages can restrict production, increase operating costs or force temporary shutdowns. Taiwan’s 2021 drought demonstrated the vulnerability of water-intensive semiconductor manufacturing to prolonged dry conditions. Reuters reported that chipmakers were ordering water trucks as the drought put pressure on supplies. This historical example illustrates the importance of water resilience; it does not mean Taiwan will necessarily experience the same conditions again during the current El Niño. [16] What companies should do Map water use and local water stress at critical facilities and suppliers. Identify processes that cannot operate without a reliable water supply. Assess water recycling, reuse, storage and alternative supply options. Ask critical suppliers about drought plans, restrictions and continuity thresholds. 4. Commodity volatility can affect procurement and production costs El Niño can affect crop yields and rainfall patterns, but price movements also depend on inventories, trade restrictions, energy prices, fertiliser costs and transport conditions. Businesses should therefore treat climate forecasts as risk indicators, not precise commodity-price predictions. FEWS NET’s October 2026 outlook identifies potential El Niño-related rainfall impacts across several regions and examines the implications for food availability and staple prices. It also highlights the interaction between weather conditions and other pressures, including fuel, fertiliser and transport costs. [7] For manufacturers, these effects can reach procurement through packaging, agricultural feedstocks, energy and other climate-sensitive inputs. What companies should do Identify climate-sensitive materials and single-source dependencies. Stress-test availability and costs under alternative scenarios. Review inventory coverage and qualified alternative suppliers. Monitor commodity prices, supplier lead times and regional weather indicators. 5. Shipping and logistics disruption can undermine delivery commitments Drought can constrain inland waterways, while extreme weather can disrupt ports, roads, railways and air freight. These pressures can increase lead times, freight costs and working-capital requirements. On 28 September 2026, the Panama Canal Authority announced that daily transit capacity would rise to 33 slots from 15 October, with a maximum authorised draft of 14.94 metres (49 feet) for vessels using the Neopanamax locks. The Authority also said a water deficit remained in the Canal watershed. The capacity increase therefore does not mean the underlying water risk has disappeared. [6] For electronics manufacturers operating on tightly scheduled component deliveries, a route disruption can affect production even when the factory itself remains unaffected. What companies should do Identify shipments dependent on climate-sensitive routes. Build realistic lead-time buffers into delivery commitments. Review alternative ports, routes, carriers and freight contracts. Monitor official operator notices and booking conditions. 6. Regional differences can create uneven supplier risks El Niño does not produce the same conditions everywhere. Some areas may face heat and drought, while others experience heavy rainfall or flooding. National-level forecasts can obscure substantial differences between supplier locations. FEWS NET’s October outlook illustrates this regional variation. It identifies below-average rainfall concerns in parts of East Africa, the Sahel, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Pakistan, while also highlighting flood risk in parts of the eastern Horn of Africa. These are regional outlooks, not guarantees of specific outcomes at individual sites. [7] What companies should do Assess risk at facility and subregional level, not just by country. Map critical suppliers, logistics routes and lower-tier dependencies. Identify shared dependencies, including power grids, watersheds and transport corridors. Request evidence of supplier continuity planning and test recovery assumptions. 7. Financial, insurance and governance risks can compound disruption Climate-related interruptions can affect revenue forecasts, insurance costs, working capital and customer commitments. They can also expose weaknesses in enterprise risk management and sustainability reporting. For reporting entities, obligations depend on jurisdiction, company scope and the applicable reporting period. IFRS S2 provides a framework for climate-related financial disclosures. In India, SEBI’s BRSR-related requirements and its 28 March 2025 circular address sustainability disclosures and aspects of value-chain ESG reporting. In the EU, Directive (EU) 2026/470 amended corporate sustainability reporting and due-diligence requirements; Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/1560 establishes voluntary sustainability reporting standards for certain value-chain undertakings, while Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/1563 simplifies certain existing European Sustainability Reporting Standards. Companies should assess the specific provisions that apply to them rather than assume universal coverage. [8–12] What companies should do Link climate scenarios to financial planning and enterprise risk registers. Review insurance exclusions, business-interruption limits and recovery assumptions. Document material risks, mitigation measures and the evidence supporting decisions. Confirm reporting obligations with qualified legal, finance and sustainability teams. When climate disruption becomes a quality failure Climate exposure can become a product-quality issue when heat, humidity, water shortages, power interruptions or supplier changes alter process conditions. Possible consequences include material variation, equipment instability, contamination, handling problems and inconsistent inspection results. Five quality controls are especially important: Change control: Assess process, material, equipment or site changes triggered by disruption before implementation. Supplier quality: Reassess suppliers whose operating conditions, sources or production locations change. Traceability: Preserve records linking materials, lots, production conditions and affected customers. Risk-based inspection: Increase verification where evidence indicates a higher risk of nonconformity. Corrective action: Investigate root causes and verify effectiveness rather than treating repeated failures as isolated incidents. In electronics manufacturing, an emergency switch to substitute components or an alternative supplier can introduce risks that extend beyond production continuity. Existing RoHS, REACH and POPs declarations may no longer cover the substitute materials or supplier, while traceability and change-control records may become incomplete. Companies should verify compliance evidence and approve substitutions before use rather than assume that an alternative component is equivalent. ISO published ISO 9001:2026 on 16 September 2026. The new edition aims to help organisations strengthen resilience, respond to evolving customer expectations and manage increasingly interconnected supply chains. ISO 9001:2026 carries forward the requirement to consider whether climate change is a relevant issue for the quality management system, first introduced through the 2024 amendment to ISO 9001:2015. Organisations should assess relevance to their context rather than assume climate change automatically requires a specific initiative. [13, 14] Published transition guidance has differed between 15 September 2029 and 30 September 2029. ISO/TC 176 guidance gives 30 September 2029, while TÜV SÜD’s detailed guidance has stated 15 September 2029. Organizations should confirm the applicable deadline with their certification body rather than assume the discrepancy has been resolved. [14, 15] Track practical indicators such as heat-related incidents, outage hours, water availability, supplier recovery time, delivery performance, nonconformities and overdue mitigation actions. Review thresholds as forecasts and operating conditions change. Conclusion – El Niño 2026–2027: Seven Business Risks and How Companies Should Respond The 2026–2027 El Niño is a warning to test business resilience before disruption occurs. For electronics and semiconductor manufacturers, exposure may sit not only at their own facilities but also among suppliers, utilities, watersheds and transport routes on which production depends. Companies do not need to predict every weather event. They need to identify where climate stress could interrupt people, materials, production or delivery, and establish controls before those vulnerabilities become costly failures. The practical priority is clear: map exposure, protect workers, test continuity plans and connect climate risk to supplier quality and enterprise governance. References El Niño Business Risk 1. World Meteorological Organization (8 October 2026). Sea-surface te

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