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Disaster Area Jennifer Matarese
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A podcast about disasters throughout history - what caused them, how people survived, and how we've responded to keep those disasters from happening again.
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Episode 234: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Three
It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.
Videos:
A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906
Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary
Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred
San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]
Articles and books:
The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation -
Episode 233: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Two
It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.
Videos:
A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906
Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary
Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred
San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]
Articles and books:
The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation -
Episode 232: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part One
It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.
Videos:
A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906 Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]
Articles and books:
The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation -
Episode 231: The Peshtigo fire
The deadliest fire in American history happened not in Chicago, but in a small Wisconsin town to the north of Chicago on the exact same day - October 8th, 1871.
Videos:
Watch now: The story of the tabernacle in the Peshtigo Fire
Lake Michigan shipwreck; sank during 1871 Peshtigo Fire
Articles and books:
Firestorm at Peshtigo, by Denise Gess and William Lotz
The Great Midwest Wildfires of 1871
Wisconsin Shipwrecks: The George L. Newman
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Episode 230: The sinking of the USS Thresher
On April 9th, 1963, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher departed Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for depth tests in the Atlantic. It would never return.
Videos:
Second Saturday: The Loss of the USS Thresher Finding the Titanic | Bob Ballard: An Explorer’s Life
Articles and books:
U.S. Naval Institute: What Killed the Thresher? Arlington National Cemetery: USS Thresher memorial Titanic Discovery was By-Product of Military Quest The Death of the USS Thresher: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster, by Norman Polmar Navy documents reveal officer flagged "dangerous condition" before deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history -
Episode 229: The Collinwood school fire
The deadliest school fire in American history took place on - of all days - Ash Wednesday, March 8th, 1908, in the Cleveland suburb of Collinwood just after first period ended. Within a half hour, 172 students and three adults would be dead, or close to it.
Videos:
Cleveland Public Library: Collinwood school fire Articles and books:
The Collinwood Tragedy: The Story of the Worst School Fire in American History, by James Jessen Badal The neighborhood never forgets Collinwood school fire: 100 years later, an angel still kneels over the children REMEMBERING THE LAKEVIEW SCHOOL FIRE (ALSO KNOWN AS COLLINWOOD SCHOOL FIRE)
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In episode 138 you say that the sources doesn’t agree on all details which is a good way. However the conspiracy theories after the Estonia was not mainly held by onlookers but also the survivors and the relatives my the deceased. A hole was found on the starboard side, it is possible that the visor caused the hole. However was very unlikely to collide with a smuggler since Estonia herself carried smuggled military materials the week before the disaster.
The ship thankfully wasn’t covered in concrete and as one man put it at a press conference after a government member said "I think it’s important to respect the government’s decision to cover the Estonia in concrete".
The room laughed and a man said "Where is the respect of covering the deceased in concrete".
The room went cheering but the government members silent.
One of my favorites
I appreciably the amount of detail in these stories. The information and anecdotes about the geography, culture and political climate in the places where these disasters take place makes the stories come alive in ways I haven’t experienced with a lot of other podcasts.
There are both tragic losses and miraculous survival stories that as inspirational as they are heartbreaking.
The host keeps a nice balance between educational and emotional content, with some well timed dark humor and sarcastic remarks that she manages to include in a respectful manner.
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I liked it until she started with the left wing propaganda babbel...