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CHICAGO — It felt like the opening minutes of a disaster movie. This summer, Trevor O’Donnell, 64, had been reading the cascade of news about extreme weather: wildfire smoke covering the country, deadly flooding in unexpected places, record-breaking heat. To O’Donnell, a tourism executive who splits his time between Palm Springs, California, and Douglas, Michigan, American life now resembled a scene straight of out a Hollywood film, when the hero’s family is making breakfast as alarming televisi