Raissa Marks with the dollhouse her grandfather built for her mother, which has been passed down through generations. Marks could well have lost the cherished heirloom when her Dorval home flooded during the record rainfall of Aug. 9. This week, the dollhouse will feature in an exhibit in New York City organized by Sierra Club Canada, showing artifacts connected to natural disasters that were fuelled by climate change. Article content The dollhouse Raissa Marks’s grandfather made for her mother by hand when she was a girl was stashed in the crawl space when storm water flooded Marks’s Dorval home this summer. This week it will be on display in New York City to help send a message about how climate change is hitting home with increasing ferocity and frequency. Marks’s mother had played with the little wooden house and its miniature furniture when she was young. She passed it on to Marks and her sisters when they were children, and it was handed down to Marks’s kids — now 11 and 13 — when they were small. Marks had put the dollhouse in storage to await the next generation. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Trending Letters: Focus on language is fraying our social fabric Allison Hanes: Museum of heartbreak displays the personal toll of climate change 19-year-old man dies after being stabbed near Langelier métro Article content The heirloom under the stairs didn’t even cross Marks’s mind when water soaked her basement around 8:15 p.m. on Aug. 9, as the remnants of hurricane Debby doused Montreal . “Suddenly I just saw water coming in through the hallway to the room where we were watching TV,” she recalled. “And about half a second later my husband felt water on his socks, coming […]