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🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | The year 2010. How was it for you? |
0:05.0 | For America as a whole, it was a mixed year. |
0:09.0 | The United States was still grappling with the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. |
0:15.0 | The economy was slowly recovering, but unemployment remained really high. |
0:27.6 | The possibility of foreclosure still haunted countless families, and the nation's confidence was fragile. |
0:35.6 | Yet, even with the economic turmoil, there were also signs of resilience and a determination to rebuild. |
0:41.5 | The stock market was rebounding, and some people started seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. |
0:43.1 | Technology continued its rapid evolution in 2010. |
0:46.6 | The first iPad was released in. |
0:49.2 | The smartphone revolution was in full swing, with devices becoming increasingly sophisticated and essential |
0:56.3 | to daily life. Instagram also started that year. Social media as a whole was growing exponentially, |
1:04.3 | transforming the way people communicated and consumed information. For me, the year 2010 was about like any other. |
1:12.8 | I was obviously working as a 911 one dispatcher back then. |
1:16.6 | The only hugely significant thing worthy of mentioning on the show was in early May. |
1:21.3 | I was attending a relative's wedding in South Carolina. |
1:24.3 | The town it was being held in was Edisto Island, which is an incredible place right on the beach. |
1:29.7 | I was slated to be off work the entire week, and a couple days into it, rain started falling in Nashville and the rest of the middle is in the sea. |
1:38.3 | Heavy rains. Full-on thunderstorms that lasted for two days straight, dumping over 13 inches of rain in Nashville. |
1:45.5 | Severe flooding was widespread around the city, and I decided to cut my trip short and |
1:49.7 | come back into work. I knew they'd be busy, and they certainly were. But for some people, |
1:56.7 | in the instance I'll be talking about today, 2010 was by far the worst year they've ever experienced. |
2:04.4 | Welcome back to Music City 911. |
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