In Houston, storm damage recovery and insurance hurdles
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🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Houston residents are once again rebuilding after a severe windstorm delivered damage to cars, businesses and homes last week. Insurers are just beginning to assess the extent of the damage — at a time when insurance is getting pricier and harder to find. Then, the FDIC’s chair says he will step down once a successor is confirmed following investigations into toxic culture at the agency. Plus, can legislation save local news?
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| 0:27.0 | My name is Lee Hawkins. |
| 0:30.0 | I've been a journalist for over 25 years. On my new |
| 0:36.9 | podcast, What Happened in Alabama, I get answers to some of the hardest questions |
| 0:42.2 | about how things came to be for many |
| 0:44.8 | black Americans and the truth that must come before any reconciliation can happen. |
| 0:50.6 | I investigate my family history, my upbringing in Minnesota, and my father's |
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| 1:01.8 | series confronting the cycles of trauma for myself, my family, and for many |
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| 1:08.9 | Listen now. Disaster insurance is great if you can find it. |
| 1:23.4 | From Marketplace I'm Sabrie Benashore and for David Brancaccio. |
| 1:26.9 | People who live around Houston, Texas are in rebuilding mode after a major windstorm damaged cars, businesses, and homes last week. |
| 1:35.6 | Their insurers are just starting to put a dollar number to the destruction. |
| 1:40.6 | That insurance, though, is getting more expensive and harder to even find at all. |
| 1:45.4 | In Houston, Marketplace's Elizabeth Trova has that. |
| 1:48.6 | In the wake of the storm, insurance claims are flooding in, says Rich Johnson, with the Insurance Council of Texas. |
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