Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And before I get started with the episode today,

I'd just like to take care of the usual housekeeping. For starters, paid requests are now reopened.

If you're interested in submitting a disaster request, please double-check the list of requests.

I recently posted to the podcast Facebook and Tumblr to make sure your request has not already been made.

Also, please look through past episodes to verify I haven't already covered the disaster

in question.

To submit a request, you can send a donation of $30 or more to the podcast PayPal at

Disasterarea at Mail.com, on Venmo at Disaster Area Podcast, or on Cash App at Disaster

Area Pod. Just add the name of the

disaster to the notes on your donation. If you have an idea for an episode subject, but you're not

sure if it qualifies, feel free to message me and I can approve one way or another. Now, if you know me

and you know the podcast, you know that I have a very wide umbrella under which I will cover a

disaster. You can go back and get some idea of what disasters I'm willing to cover by looking

not only at the request list, but also at previous disasters that I have covered. So anything

is pretty much game. I also got a great suggestion today from someone who kind of gave a more general idea for an episode,

and I can't wait to say yes to that because I haven't gotten a chance to respond yet, but it's a really great idea, so I can't wait.

So the subject for this episode was chosen by Colin, and I'd like to thank them for the request and for the donation.

If you'd still like to help support the podcast in another way, you can do so with a one-time donation through PayPal at Disasterarea at mail.com, on Venmo at Disaster Area Podcast, on Cash App at Disaster Area Pod or on a per episode basis through Patreon at

www.com slash disaster area podcast. A per episode donation of even as little as a dollar an episode

can help me do things like pay the rent and keep the lights on, especially considering that I'm going to have some time off in the future

from dog camp because it does slow down a little bit in the winter, so every little bit helps.

And if you do join the Patreon, you will get new episodes ad-free as soon as I record them

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