How To! | The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why.

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🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

After a tree destroyed Tucker’s roof during a tornado, he felt lucky to be alive—and underprepared for the next disaster his family might face. On this episode, Courtney Martin welcomes back author and former How To! host Amanda Ripley to discuss emergency preparedness and how regular citizens can react smarter during a devastating event. Amanda’s newly updated book is The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why. After listening to this conversation, seek out (and save) this information: CERT Training Your state’s homeland security website Your county’s emergency management agency Local emergency alerts If you liked this episode check out: How To Keep Cool in a Crisis and How To Cope With Climate Anxiety. Also mentioned: How To Pick a College (and Actually Afford It) and How To Take a Gap Year Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. How To’s executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. The show is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis and Sara McCrae. Want more How To!? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock exclusive bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of the How To! show page. Or, visit slate.com/howtoplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What if we try something to get the recording jitters out?
0:05.1	This is a powerful little exercise.
0:07.3	Green Berets and FBI agents use to calm themselves.
0:10.8	Amanda, can you quickly tell us about combat Lamas?
0:14.4	And then maybe we can do it together?
0:16.2	Absolutely.
0:17.1	I thought you'd never ask.
0:18.2	Let's inhale for the count of four.
0:21.0	One, two, three, four.
0:25.4	And then hold for four.
0:29.5	And then exhale for four.
0:33.1	One, two, three, four.
0:36.6	Hold for four. Great job, everyone. How that feel? Wow, I feel like a green beret.
0:47.3	Welcome to how to, the show where listeners bring us their trickiest questions, and we bring in knowledgeable experts to give them guidance.
1:00.0	I'm Courtney Martin, and this is today's listener, Tucker.
1:04.0	I live in Alabama, and in the southeast, there's always this threat of tornadoes.
1:10.0	Late last year, Tucker was sleeping in his house in Tuscaloosa when the weather southeast, there's always this threat of tornadoes.
1:16.0	Late last year, Tucker was sleeping in his house in Tuscaloosa when the weather took a turn for the worse.
1:17.6	There was this huge amount of wind that was blowing. It was raining a bunch.
1:22.3	We were thinking there was going to be a possibility of a tornado, and it was late at night.
1:26.5	It was like close to midnight.
1:28.6	I live with my spouse and Meg. We were both laying down. And at one point, we just heard this
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