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Amanda, can you quickly tell us about combat Lamas? And then maybe we can do it together.

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three, four. Hold for four. Great job, everyone. How that feel?

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Welcome to how to, the show where listeners bring us their trickiest questions, and we bring in knowledgeable experts to give them guidance.

I'm Courtney Martin, and this is today's listener, Tucker.

I live in Alabama, and in the southeast, there's always this threat of tornadoes.

Late last year, Tucker was sleeping in his house in Tuscaloosa when the weather took a turn for the worse.

There was this huge amount of wind that was blowing. It was raining a bunch. We were thinking there was going to be a possibility of a tornado.

And it was late at night. It was like close to midnight. I live with my spouse and Meg. We were both laying down. And at one point,

we just heard this big thump on our house. When they heard the huge crack and felt the house move,

Tucker's wife sprung into action. Well, Tucker's impulse was a little different.

All of a sudden, your whole night changes, right?

Then, like, you don't want to do this.

Like, that was, that's like a selfish kind of thing.

But that felt kind of where I was at and then also worried that it's like the worst imaginable

thing.

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