‘Til the landslide brings it down

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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What happens when the growing threat of landslides collides with a housing crisis?

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0:00.0	Hey, this is outside in. I'm Nate Hedgy.
0:04.0	It's about 38 degrees.
0:07.0	Wet slushy snow, clouds, classic Juno Alaska Day.
0:16.0	Earlier this year, I was jet-lagged cold and waiting for a guy named Tom Matisse to meet me at a parking lot in Alaska's capital city.
0:24.4	When he finally pulled up he was driving a giant white Ford pickup truck with a bumper
0:29.6	sticker that said, Fish and Magician. Yeah, it was an old plow truck from Oregon and I painted it all up.
0:36.0	Yeah, it looks good.
0:37.0	It looks really good.
0:38.0	Tom's lived in Juno for about two decades,
0:41.0	and he wanted to meet me at the city's famous shrinking glacier
0:44.3	Mendenhall. We watched as people walked across a giant frozen lake to see the
0:50.1	glacier's ice caves. You want to see me out on that ice?
0:53.2	Probably not.
0:54.2	There's springs and creeks coming out
0:56.2	from underneath the ice over there,
0:58.0	and the ice still calves over there.
1:00.0	And you could go over there and have a piece of ice
1:01.9	the size of a house fall off and crash right through the ice.
1:05.0	So I'm a little always a little nervous on the lake. It's pretty safe, but you definitely want to pay attention.
1:11.0	Tom is used to thinking carefully about risk.
1:14.8	He's the emergency programs manager for the city and borough of Juneau.
1:18.8	It's basically his job to stop people from getting killed, not only from ice, but from landslides too.
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