Windy City
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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The natural world is on full display in today's tour of the Cabinet. And where there's power, there's good story.
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| 0:00.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:07.2 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:13.1 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:27.8 | But there's one thing we can't change, it's the weather. |
| 0:30.5 | It does whatever it wants to, and all we can do is grin and bear it. |
| 0:34.6 | Florida will always face hurricanes in the summer. |
| 0:37.4 | The Minnesota can plan on sub-zero winters every January and February. |
| 0:43.3 | In Iran, where temperatures can reach up to 128 degrees Fahrenheit, high winds are |
| 0:48.8 | a given. |
| 0:49.9 | These winds, which can gust as high as 70 miles an hour or more, kick up sand and dust, |
| 0:55.7 | costing in some pretty devastating sandstorms. |
| 0:59.3 | When that happens, day turns to night as the sand sweeps through towns, knocking over |
| 1:04.0 | trees, taking out power lines and swallowing cars or even people. |
| 1:09.5 | They're a deadly nuisance, but also a fact of life, and it's been that way for thousands |
| 1:14.4 | of years. |
| 1:15.7 | But if you look at the top of an old wall in the small village of Nash to Fan, you'll |
| 1:19.7 | see how the Iranian people have learned to live with these dust-ups, and how they've |
| 1:24.0 | used them to drive innovation. |
| 1:26.9 | The town's name is appropriate, too. |
| 1:29.2 | Nash to Fan translates roughly as Storm's Sting. |
| 1:32.6 | The winds that blow there can be powerful and damaging, but Nash to Fan has found a way |
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