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Somewhere to Sleep

Somewhere to Sleep

FromIn Deep


Somewhere to Sleep

FromIn Deep

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Sep 27, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In a span of nine months, Lake Charles, Louisiana, endured two hurricanes, an ice storm, and a flood. Each one was declared a federal disaster. The government promised help, but as time wore on, this working-class city was still a sea of blue tarps and debris. Thousands of people were left scrambling to find somewhere to live. 
People like Alexis Sheridan and her fiancé JJ Jones, who lost their rental home in back-to-back hurricanes. They bounced around between living in their damaged house, hotel rooms, and a tent. And with a baby on the way, the couple was desperate to find a permanent home.
In this episode we spend time with Alexis and JJ as they wait for someone to step in and rebuild their city after a year of climate chaos.
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Released:
Sep 27, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (15)

In Deep is a podcast about water, climate and environment from The Water Main at American Public Media. In Season 1, we tackled the strangely fascinating yet troubling world of clean water -- from tap to toilet. Season 2 shines a light on environmental equity with a rich journalistic portrait of a working-class city and its residents at a perilous moment in our planet's existence.