Two hurricanes in two weeks: life after Milton and Helene
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
It’s a strange experience for journalist Natasha Del Toro to be on the other side of the mic, sharing her firsthand account of living through back-to-back hurricanes. Families like hers in the state of Florida are facing power outages and damaged homes while trying to rebuild emotionally, all while hurricane season continues.
In this episode:
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Natasha Del Toro (@ndeltoro), Journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker, Ashish Malhatora, and Sonia Bhagat, with Phillip Lanos, Duha Mosaad, Cole van Miltenburg and our host Malika Bilal.
The Take production team is Marcos Bartolomé, Sonia Bhagat, Sarí el-Khalili, Tamara Khandaker, Phillip Lanos, Chloe K. Li, Ashish Malhotra, Khaled Soltan, and Amy Walters. Our editorial interns are Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, and Cole van Miltenburg. Our host is Malika Bilal. Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Aya Elmileik is lead of audience engagement.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio. We’ll be back tomorrow.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, inside the chaos of surviving back-to-back hurricanes. |
| 0:17.0 | I haven't really had a lot of time in these last two weeks to even process everything that has happened. |
| 0:27.4 | I haven't had an opportunity to really stop. |
| 0:30.9 | How do you find the strength to stay and rebuild when the next storm could be around the corner? |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take. |
| 0:48.2 | This is a very strange day. |
| 0:50.7 | This is the day after the hurricane, after the second hurricane. We've had two hurricanes in the |
| 0:57.8 | last two weeks, and they've hit us back to back. You might recognize this person. This is |
| 1:06.9 | Natasha Daltoro. She's an award-winning journalist, and once in a while, she even guests |
| 1:12.3 | hosts this show. |
| 1:13.6 | Hi, Malika. It's nice to talk to you. It's nice to finally feel like I'm out of harm's way, |
| 1:25.6 | because these last two weeks have been crazy. |
| 1:30.8 | Today's episode is a little different. Between power outages, searching for gas, and just |
| 1:37.3 | trying to stay safe, Natasha's been living in survival mode, so she couldn't sit down for a formal |
| 1:43.9 | interview with us. Instead, |
| 1:46.7 | she shared her experience with us in real time and sent us videos and voice memos. They give us |
| 1:53.6 | an unfiltered look at what the past few weeks have been like for her and her community. |
| 1:59.6 | It is very strange to be on this side of the microphone. |
| 2:04.3 | This is not the usual side that I am on. |
| 2:07.3 | I'm usually on the side where I'm asking questions. |
| 2:11.3 | And so it's a very strange feeling to be on the other end of this situation being the one to answer questions about |
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