Episodes

  • Hell or High Water Trailer

    Hell or High Water Trailer
    Apr 6 2023
    Some disasters arrive all of a sudden: a wave, a quake, a raging fire. Others are slow-moving, even subtle. Water where it didn’t used to be. Heat that burns through the night. Trees gone white. But no matter what form it takes, disaster is a daily reality for more and more of us, at once ordinary and shattering. In this series from Vox Media and Audible Originals, we visit six communities across the US that are contending with disaster. We go beyond crisis coverage to explore the deeper questions: When disaster hits, what forces determine who stays, who goes, and what we do with what’s left? How did we get here in the first place? How far does our sense of community extend? Once land, cities, and buildings are repaired, who do we become? How do we keep remaking our sense of home?
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    2 mins
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  • Episode 1: When Your Land Disappears — Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana

    Episode 1: When Your Land Disappears — Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana
    Apr 13 2023
    Descendants of Biloxi, Chitimacha, and Choctaw Indians, who’ve lived just off Louisiana’s coast for more than a century, are losing their homes. Isle de Jean Charles is disappearing under the water faster than most anyone imagined. Why? Environmental degradation has been fueled by government and industry officials who once saw value in this land, and then changed their minds. Now, residents are being told it’s time to move. Not everyone is willing to go.
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    35 mins
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  • Episode 2: Heat Divides — Phoenix, Arizona

    Episode 2: Heat Divides — Phoenix, Arizona
    Apr 13 2023
    Phoenix, Arizona, is America’s hottest major city, and temperatures in low-income communities can be 10 degrees higher than in wealthy neighborhoods that are minutes away. After yet another record-breaking summer of heat-related deaths and hospitalizations, we might finally have reached a moment of truth: communities and officials in this desert city are making moves to dial down the heat. But will their efforts work? This episode contains mature themes and language.
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    31 mins
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  • Episode 3: A Tsunami of Fire — Greenville, California

    Episode 3: A Tsunami of Fire — Greenville, California
    Apr 13 2023
    For the better part of a century, Californians scrambled to suppress fire at all costs, despite growing evidence that the state is designed to burn. In 2021, the Dixie Fire incinerated Greenville, a small town tucked into the Sierra Nevada mountains. Now, residents are turning to traditional practices and new technologies to live with fire as a fact of life. But why did a wildfire that sparked miles and miles away ever even get to this place? What is left of a beloved town?
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    39 mins
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  • Episode 4: Don't Touch the Water — Miami, Florida

    Episode 4: Don't Touch the Water — Miami, Florida
    Apr 13 2023
    Hurricanes and rising seas are just one part of Miami’s catastrophe narrative. There’s another part. A more insidious part. An invisible part. It’s not safe. It doesn’t smell good. And it’s in the water. This episode contains mature language.
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  • Episode 5: Lava Zone One — Big Island, Hawaii

    Episode 5: Lava Zone One — Big Island, Hawaii
    Apr 13 2023
    The district of Puna spreads across the eastern rift zone of Kilauea, the most active volcano in the world. We hear why people live so close to an explosive mountain on the Big Island of Hawaii. Why do some survivors of the 2018 eruption keep living here, even after the lava engulfed their homes and blackened their land? How do people relate to the volcano, and what does the history of this place tell us about its future?
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    41 mins
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  • Episode 6: We Built too Close to the Sea — Sea Islands, South Carolina

    Episode 6: We Built too Close to the Sea — Sea Islands, South Carolina
    Apr 13 2023
    We visit two places on the coast of South Carolina. Both face rising waters and shifting sands, due to a mix of natural and human forces. Each community has its own story on how to respond and adapt to environmental threats. What we learn from these two communities moves us to reconsider the lives and lessons from across our season, and reminds us why what we have is worth fighting for, come hell or high water.
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    41 mins
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