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The Gist

Three Cheers for Houston

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Hurricane Harvey has caused a huge amount of property damage, but so far the death toll remains remarkably low. Why? Mike talks to John Mutter, a Columbia University professor who studies how natural disasters affect the poor. Mutter is the author of The Disaster Profiteers. In the Spiel, the deal-making wizardry of President Trump.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:06.9

It's Thursday, September 7, 2017.

0:10.2

From slate, it's the gist I'm like pesca.

0:13.0

Hurricane Irma, 180 mile an hour winds, ripping through the Caribbean.

0:18.0

Irma damages 90% of the island of Barbuda, which is bad.

0:24.0

That's what Time said.

0:25.5

But their sister publication, Drove At Home, by adding,

0:29.0

90% of the island of Barbuda, including Robert De Niro's hotel,

0:34.0

was the eye of Hurricane Irma looking at him.

0:38.0

It seems likely.

0:39.0

Now, I don't want to diminish the terrible power of Irma.

0:41.0

It has killed at least 10 people.

0:43.0

But this whole destroyed nearly every building on Barbuda thing.

0:48.0

Let me read from the Lonely Planet Guide to Barbuda.

0:50.0

This was pre-Eurma.

0:52.0

When Gertrude Stein famously opined, there is no there there.

0:56.0

She might have meant Barbuda.

0:58.0

Here is the official description of Barbuda from a government website.

1:02.0

Barbuda is one of those very few islands in the Caribbean that remains

1:06.0

and probably will remain for some time so undeveloped as to seem

1:10.0

positively deserted at times.

1:12.0

And then it goes on to praise the frigate birds.

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