From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

I'm routine powers.

It's Monday, December 28th.

Back in the spring, the producers of the post podcast all told put together a series

of audio diaries.

They brought listeners inside different people's experiences of the pandemic.

One of those diaries was from Jacob May.

In late April, a dam in Midland, Michigan failed massively.

It left an entire community literally underwater during the pandemic.

At the time, Jacob was a high school senior.

He saw the devastation ravage his hometown.

Today, we're re-airing Jacob's audio diary and a follow-up interview to see how he's

doing now.

This is all told from the Washington Post.

In this episode, we appearance at the life of Jacob May.

He's 17 and he's finishing his last days of high school from home.

He lives in Michigan, goes to Midland High.

And the city of Midland is a small city.

It's about 42,000 people surrounded by lakes, rivers, and dams.

Jacob wrote a story about the problems with one of these dams last year for his school

newspaper.

Now he's set to go to Michigan State to study journalism in the fall.

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