Welcome back to this pro rata, where we take just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics.

I'm Danper Mac. On today's show, Amazon's big loss and the first of what could become a wave of retail bankruptcies.

But first, a viral hurricane. So America is obviously in the midst of a logistical nightmare right now due to the coronavirus pandemic.

But in some places, it might be about to get even worse.

Not because of the expected viral resurgence in the fall, but because of hurricanes.

Yeah, remember those?

Well, hurricane season officially begins in less than a month and forecasters are expecting a particularly active season.

Axios National Political Reporter Jonathan Swan reports that FEMA is currently drafting a document

for how states and cities should handle a hurricane in 2020, and the complications are endless.

For example, how do you evacuate people from hurricane zones while maintaining six feet of

social distance? How much extra

shelter space would be needed to house people when you can no longer afford to safely crowd

into schools or community centers? How do you protect the most vulnerable people like the elderly

and those with underlying conditions? How do you pay for all the added expenses at a time when

state and local budgets are sinking deeper and deeper underwater, let alone source all of the extra personal protective equipment.

In short, America may soon face a natural disaster on top of an existing catastrophe.

So let's dig in with Axios reporter Jonathan Swan.

Jonathan, you talk about this draft document and all of these questions that FEMA is

currently facing. Does it have answers yet? No. The sense I got from talking to the boss of FEMA,

Pete Gaynor, is they're trying. I mean, they're writing this playbook. But you've got to remember,

nobody has ever had to do this before. I mean, literally, there is no playbook for this.

He has to think about now, like, let's just take a hurricane like Katrina, which overwhelmed

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