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.

Now, normally, this would be the part of the episode where I give you the information you would need to pay for a request for the podcast.

However, if you've listened to the latest update to the podcast feed or checked our social media accounts lately, then you know that I have paused new paid requests for the time being. I currently have a list that is 71 requests long, so it's only fair that I put new paid

requests on hold for the time being until I finish a good portion of the list I already have.

If you happen to hear any old episodes and submit a paid request at this time. I will be returning your payment to

you and noting that I will accept your request again once I have gotten through some more

of the list that I already have. Now, to be fair, I have accepted one request, paid request,

since I started this, but it is for a disaster that I'm already doing research on for a different

project, and so I thought it was only fair that I could do that one since I'm already doing

the research anyway. Now, if you are subscribed to the podcast, Patreon at a level where you

should get to requests an episode, but you haven't sent in your request yet. No worries. I will still accept your request. No problem. Whenever

you get around to it, that's fine. This particular episode is a request from Kristen, and I'd like

to thank them for the request and for the donation. Now, if you'd still like to help support the

podcast, you can do so with a one-time donation through PayPal at Disasterarea.mail.com, on Venmo at Disaster Area Podcast, on Cash App at Disaster Area Pod, 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 go on my planned trip to New York City on the first week of May,

which is in a week and a half. I'm going to be going to different disaster sites like the 9-11 Memorial and the

Brown building where the Triangle Strait Waste Factory Fire occurred, other instances of disaster

throughout the city. And I will be doing an episode about that as well as writing it up in my

book that I am still working on.

I will be doing as much as possible when all I'm there,

so hopefully it'll be a really long episode.

We'll see what we can do.

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