Out to dry after a hurricane
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🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
As hurricane season hits, we examine what happens when Black communities seem to be last in line for disaster planning in Texas.
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Communities more likely to be hit by hurricanes are bracing themselves for a rough summer, as hurricane season begins June 1. But in Kashmere Gardens, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Houston, residents are still trying to repair the damage to homes from a hurricane that hit five years ago.
As Tracy Jan tells producer Bishop Sand, that’s because money to address that damage — and to prevent further destruction — has been hard to come by. According to an investigation by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Texas directed federal grants toward Whiter and wealthier areas — leaving places like Kashmere Gardens out to dry.
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| 0:00.0 | Climate and how it affects our weather. |
| 0:02.6 | Now climate specialist, Jeff Veradelli. |
| 0:05.6 | So we have a very interesting weather pattern. |
| 0:09.6 | Wednesday June 1st is the official start of this year's hurricane season. |
| 0:16.2 | According to meteorologists at NOAA, this hurricane season is going to be above normal. |
| 0:21.9 | Storms are becoming more powerful and more frequent, and that's because climate change |
| 0:26.1 | is causing warmer ocean temperatures. |
| 0:29.1 | So because of that, we're reaching these threshold temperatures earlier in the season, and |
| 0:33.8 | systems are more capable of forming before June 1st, which is traditionally the beginning |
| 0:38.9 | of hurricane season. |
| 0:39.9 | As you can imagine, communities that are more likely to be hit by hurricanes are bracing |
| 0:44.5 | themselves for a rough summer. |
| 0:46.5 | It can be frightening. |
| 0:48.1 | We hope to God that you will have any situations this year, but this is Texas, so it's always |
| 0:55.4 | better to be prepared. |
| 0:57.4 | Today, our colleague, Tracy Jan, takes us to a place like this. |
| 1:01.2 | It's a neighborhood in Houston called Kashmir Gardens. |
| 1:04.2 | It's just a 15-minute drive from the center of Houston. |
| 1:06.8 | Most of the people who live there are black. |
| 1:12.4 | And you'll hear that this is a community that has endured decades of hardship. |
| 1:17.2 | Homes there still need to be repaired from hurricane Harvey five years ago. |
| 1:22.3 | That's because money to address the damage and money to prevent further damage have been |
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