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Death, Sex & Money

When Fire Takes Everything: Rebuilding in Northern California

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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0:00.0

You see the movies on TV where everything's burning and you just go, wow, that's terrible.

0:05.0

It's worse than that. It's worse than that.

0:08.0

This is death, sex, and money.

0:14.0

Jesus, we're gonna kill that guy.

0:16.0

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:19.0

Do you have an idea how much a shirt like this costs?

0:22.0

And need to talk about more.

0:24.0

I so flirt with you in math.

0:27.5

I mean a sale.

0:31.8

We had six inches of house left, six inches of ash and it's all was left.

0:36.0

Several months ago I drove out to the end of a cul-de-sac in the hills of Santa Rosa, California.

0:42.0

Are we able to walk out on the floor?

0:44.0

There are a lot of really beautiful homes on this street, and right next to them

0:48.2

there are a lot of charred trees and empty lots where houses used to stand. A year ago wildfires swept

0:55.8

through this part of Sonoma County, killing 43 people and

0:59.6

destroying over 4,500 homes, including Ed and Kathy Hamiltons.

1:04.0

There was a few metal things that didn't burn, some chairs and a couple of...

1:08.0

The water heater, I think you could recognize the water heater.

1:11.0

And the barbecue.

1:12.0

But we spent a couple weeks coming back over shifting

1:16.6

through the rubble looking for stuff we found a pair of her diamond studs just

1:21.1

purely by accident most of the jewelry was melted. The studs were

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