Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And before I get started with the episode today, I'd just like to take care of the usual housekeeping.

If you've been wanting to hear a particular disaster on the podcast, you can do so for a $25 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 to the notes on your 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 just

shoot me an email or message for me to double check and just make sure that I didn't let you slip

through the cracks. Also, please keep in mind that right now my request list is very, very long,

so it's a matter of just trying to get as many of the requests that I have done as possible.

So I'm going to try to see if I can give an estimate on when I'm going to get disasters

covered that you've requested if asked, but I can't really guarantee it.

It's just a matter of, you know, trying to bang out as many

as possible. Now, normally when I 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 lose ends can be tied up.

The subject from this particular episode was requested by Kyle, and I'd like to thank him for the request and for the donation.

Now, if you'd like to help support the podcast in another way, and this is a very good time to do so,

you can do so with a one-time donation through PayPal at Disasterarea at Mail.com,

or on a per-episode basis through Patreon at wwwp.triot.com slash disaster area podcast.

A per episode donation of even as little as a dollar an episode can help me do things like

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