Choosing Who Gets Flooded

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The nation has weathered another major natural disaster, and the Army Corps of Engineers once again finds itself under scrutiny. NPR's national desk correspondent Wade Goodwyn says the corps made a choice to open the floodgates of two major reservoirs in southeast Texas, flooding certain neighborhoods and sparing others. Mike Pesca is back to take his rightful place as spieler in chief. Tuesday's topic: Jeff Sessions finally gets to stick it to the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.6	It's Monday, September 5th, 2017 from Sleet.
0:10.4	It's the gist.
0:11.6	I'm Mike Pasca.
0:12.6	I am Mike Pasca.
0:14.0	Back from vacation, I was gone.
0:15.6	Hurricane Harvey hit.
0:17.1	And then it kept hitting.
0:18.5	It pelted it poured.
0:19.4	It deluged.
0:20.2	It did beat down.
0:21.7	It totally drenched the sources and everything else.
0:24.5	Thank you, Global Warming.
0:26.1	Oh, wait.
0:27.1	Headline National Defense Fund.
0:28.6	OK, National Defense Fund.
0:30.2	Did climate change cause Harvey?
0:33.0	Scientists say no, but it did make the storm much, much worse.
0:36.9	Clearer still is e the Environmental Magazine, a member supported online publication
0:41.8	by and for environmentalists.
0:43.8	Was Hurricane Harvey caused by Global Warming?
0:46.8	The short answer is no.
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