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It's Monday, September 11th, 2017 from Slate.

It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

Today is what I call a LOL day,

because we will spend the day looking back at the attacks

of September 11th, 2001.

We need you. That's good.

That takes up a lot of news coverage.

And that huge earth shattering, unprecedented hurricane,

Irma, turned out to be, yes, you,

generous shattering, but not unprecedented.

Totally with precedent.

It was a hurricane.

It was an especially windy hurricane.

The Florida got prepared, got out of the way,

certainly suffered.

There was death, but it was a hurricane.

It was far from the worst.

Here's our Holt House writing in Rolling Stone,

a couple days ago, the storm that meteorologists have been

nervously tracking for days is now in the doorstep

of America's most vulnerable state.

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