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337: Chad Pregracke—America's Hardest Working Garbage Man

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

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The Power of Community in the Wake of a Disaster

"I've never seen a force quite like that and then it wiped out so much," he says of the flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "It looked like God had grabbed the train bridge with two hands and twisted the whole thing to topple" The Mississippi River is getting more frequent and higher because Silt has filled the river's capacity,. But you know, most communities have levees and are pretty well good plans, not all, but some do.

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