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Returning To A City In Crisis
- The host describes returning to the city during an unprecedented heat dome after a shooting left them isolated for weeks.
- They witnessed flights cancelled, gas lines, and communities improvising cooling while the grid faltered.
Helping Run Cooling Stations
- The narrator joined local organizers to run mutual-aid cooling stations and distribute frozen water and electrolytes.
- They observed solar-powered setups and communal comforts under an overpass that outperformed official response.
Infrastructure Fails Under Extreme Heat
- The episode links climate extremes to cascading infrastructure failures like cancelled flights and grid collapse.
- These failures reveal how modern systems were not built for increasingly common extreme events.