Hello everybody, this is Jennifer Metterese, 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, at disaster area.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 the

donation and I will add it to the list. I would suggest going through the back catalog real quick

and just checking the list of the updated list of requests that I recently posted to Facebook and

Twitter just to make sure that the

disaster that you want to request hasn't already been requested.

Now please bear with me. I am legitimately terrible about responding to messages, but rest assured that I will add your requests 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 I didn't let you slip through the cracks.

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 your 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 ends can be tied up.

The subject from this particular episode was requested by Nita, and I'd like to thank her for the request and the donation. I would also like to announce for the first time on the podcast that I have started

a Kickstarter to cover the one of the two disasters I said that I would never cover, but I have

been doing some kind of looking into it, and I am pretty sure that I could do

what I said I wasn't going to do and cover Titanic. It would take me 10 episodes, though,

to do it the way that I want to do it, at least. So it's a big project. It is not a $25 request by a long shot. And I don't want to

saddle any one person with having to, you know, pay for all of that because it is going to

take me all year, next year, to do it to the way that I want to. So it would be a whole series at the end of next

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