An App Built for Hurricane Harvey Is Now Saving Lives in Florida
An App Built for Hurricane Harvey Is Now Saving Lives in Florida
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 19, 20189m 13s
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Show Notes
Last Wednesday, Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle at 155 miles per hour, flattening neighborhoods, turning subdivisions into rubble, and plunging the coast into darkness. On Friday, Trevor Lewis packed up two trucks with crowbars, chainsaws, sledgehammers, ropes, walkie talkies, and five other guys from Cocoa Beach, where he lives on the east side of the state. As night fell they began the drive up into the worst of the wreckage.
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