Katherine Hamilton
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654 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Katherine Hamilton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · The Long-Term Financial Burden of Hurricane Recovery · 10 Oct 2024
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He experienced Ian two years ago and is also now experiencing flooding from Helene, which he and his wife had to take on about $70,000 of extra expenses from that flooding.
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But two years ago, his house also severely flooded.
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And they had to tap into their savings and took about $200,000 out of their savings, which has put a damper on their retirement plans.
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I did speak to one woman who lives in Texas and has experienced a lot of storms throughout her lifetime.
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And she was talking about how difficult it can be to prepare, especially when you're living paycheck to paycheck, because buying all the stuff that you need, insurance, generators, gas, it's obviously another additional expense that not everybody can really take on.
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She lives around Houston, and the storm touched down there in early July.
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Yes, she said she has experienced somewhere around eight storms.
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Yes, the most recent one was Hurricane Beryl over this past summer, and that storm caused eight trees to fall on her property.
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So Samantha was talking to me and honestly just sounded really defeated about her experience and her situation because every time a storm comes through it uproots her life.
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In this particular case she was without internet for over a month which put a huge damper on her ability to do her job which she works remotely and relies on her overtime hours to meet all of her bill payments.
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She's fallen really behind on her bill payments and has taken on an additional $8,000 in debt from just this storm.
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She really feels like there's not much that she can do to prepare because she's lived through eight storms.
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She knows she needs generators, gas, things like that to be ready for a storm.
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But all of those things are expensive in and of themselves.
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And she said she really feels like the aid from FEMA is not enough to cover the destruction from
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one storm and certainly not enough to be prepared for the next.
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Disaster recovery takes longer than a lot of people anticipate.
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For some, it can take up to five years to get back into their homes.
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In those cases, assistance can come too late or it can end too soon before people are really fully recovered.
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