The hurricanes shaking the US election – podcast
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:02.0 | Today, will two massive hurricanes in the US be enough to put the climate crisis on the election agenda. |
| 0:17.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination. |
| 0:32.0 | Not a care in the world as you simply lean back and before you know it. |
| 0:36.8 | You're there. |
| 0:37.8 | London to Manchester from just 32 pounds each way. |
| 0:41.6 | A Vanti West Coast. |
| 0:43.3 | Feel good travel. |
| 0:45.0 | Exclusions and limitations apply. |
| 0:46.8 | Four terms and conditions can be found at avantuouscoast.coast. |
| 0:49.4 | UK forward slash plan. |
| 1:03.0 | At the end of September, the southeastern United States was hit by Hurricane Helene. So it hit Florida at about 140 mile an hour winds, |
| 1:07.0 | so a category 4 storm, |
| 1:09.0 | and then tore its way northward through six states, going Georgia ending up in around North Carolina |
| 1:15.9 | and causing a massive amount of damage. My car is gone. I'm okay. It's okay. Everything's gone. It's all gone. This is |
| 1:25.0 | okay. This is downtown Marshall, North Carolina. The floodwaters are at 23 heat and the destruction. The at around 230 deaths from this hurricane so it is the deadliest hurricane to hit |
| 1:46.6 | the US since Maria which devastated Puerto Rico in 2017 and in terms of the |
| 1:52.0 | mainland US it's the dead list since |
| 1:54.0 | Katrina in 2005, so a really serious event. |
| 1:58.6 | It struck Florida just as Alexander Machella was settling in for some precious time with a new arrival. |
| 2:06.5 | I have a toddler and a newborn I literally had a baby two weeks ago. |
| 2:10.4 | They came home and like literally the day after we are home from the hospital to lean |
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