Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matterese. 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'm most recently posted to the podcast's Facebook, Tumblr, and Patreon to make sure your

request has not already been made. Now, I have that

list as up to date as I can, but there is always a chance that your request could have been made a long

time ago, and it just slipped through the cracks. I am trying to get everything done, so, you know,

it is kind of getting it done when I can get done, and I unfortunately missed a request for

the Portugal wildfires from a few years back, and the person who requested it reminded me,

so I made sure to add that to the list. Also, please look through past episodes to verify

that I haven't already covered the disaster in question. Again,

somebody requested recently the Port Arthur Massacre, and I did cover that way, way back in

the beginning of the podcast, so it's completely understandable that they missed that. So you may

need to go all the way back. You may need to just kind of skim

through and look and see if anything is on there that a different name that it might be

under or something along those lines. Because sometimes I do change the name of the disaster

to more aptly fit what went on. 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. And usually that's just to cover like resources and hosting and those sorts of things.

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 the other. I have a really large umbrella under which I will cover

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