Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And before I get started with the episode today, I just like to take care of the usual housekeeping. And I will try to do so as quickly as possible because this is not exactly the kind of episode. I feel very comfortable selling myself on. So with that in mind, if you've been wanting to hear a particular disaster on the podcast, you can do so for $825 or more donation to the podcast

PayPal account at Disaster Area at Mail.com or the podcast Fenmo at Disaster Area Podcast. Just add

the name of the disaster you'd like me to cover the notes on the donation and I will add it to the list.

Please bear with me. I am legitimately terrible about responding to messages, but rest assured that I will add your request to my to-do-pile.

And if it's been a while since you sent in your request, feel free to shoot me an email or message

for me to double-check and just make sure that you didn't slip through the cracks.

Now, normally when it comes to requests, I do them when and if I can, but this will mean

I will definitely cover the topic you request as soon as I can finish all of the research for it and write it up. Please keep in mind that the bigger the disaster, the more sources I may need to whittle down,

the less well-known the disaster is, the more I may need to search for sources,

and the more recent or ongoing a disaster is, the more I may want to wait until it's over

so that the complete story can be told, and all loose sense can be tied up.

The subject from this particular episode was requested by someone whose name I cannot find at the moment, along with multiple others, but one person specifically requested this with a donation, and I would like to thank them for the request and for the donation.

Now, if you'd like to help support the podcast in another way, you can do so with a one-time donation through PayPal at disaster area at mail.com, or on a per episode basis through Patreon at www.com

slash disaster area podcast. A per episode donation of even as little as a dollar an episode can

help me do things like pay the rent and keep the lights on. So if you'd become a patron,

I would very much appreciate it. And if you do join the Patreon, you will get new episodes

as soon as I record them, rather than

waiting until they are released every Wednesday. This week, unfortunately, I had to wait until

Thursday because I was trying to get as much of this script done as possible and as sensitively as

possible, so I wanted to make sure that it was done very well. So unfortunately, I was not able

to release this episode on Wednesday, but in regular weeks, I will be releasing on Wednesday and releasing earlier for the people who are patrons.

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