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Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

The bill is $2.9 billion,which will give us-- send us a long wayto, you know, repairing...

The bill is $2.9 billion,
which will give us-- send us a long way
to, you know, repairing and upgrading
the levees, making them real
Category 3 protection, which apparently they weren't,
we learned the hard way

Full Transcript

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- The bill is $2.9 billion, which will give us--
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send us a long way to, you know,
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repairing and upgrading the levees,
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making them real Category 3 protection,
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which apparently they weren't, we learned the hard way.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:38
Uploaded
Jun 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Kartemquin Films,Judith Helfand Productions

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Movie Summary

A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster" and survival by zip code.
- Back in Chicago, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:18
- Back in Chicago,
- So what you'll see behind me here - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
- So what you'll see behind me here
We're 12 stories above the city, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
We're 12 stories above the city,
So what we've done here-- we've created - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
So what we've done here-- we've created
We can see the hot spots, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:11
We can see the hot spots,
So these strategies provide real cooling of the city. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
So these strategies provide real cooling of the city.
- You know, we're pretty far away from City Hall. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:04
- You know, we're pretty far away from City Hall.
- You know, I don't know about any rooftop gardens - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
- You know, I don't know about any rooftop gardens
This is the block that I lived on - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:08
This is the block that I lived on
Used to be a church here that burned down. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
Used to be a church here that burned down.
This house was next door to where we lived, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:07
This house was next door to where we lived,
And this whole block was full of houses. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
And this whole block was full of houses.
Summer day like today, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:11
Summer day like today,
I used to get the list from my mom, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
I used to get the list from my mom,
It's just been an incredible 50-plus years - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:08
It's just been an incredible 50-plus years
If the heat wave happened when I was growing up, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:07
If the heat wave happened when I was growing up,
When it got really hot, people would sleep - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
When it got really hot, people would sleep
I mean, imagine going from feeling - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:07
I mean, imagine going from feeling
Just acres of vacant land. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:04
Just acres of vacant land.
- Orrin told me that much of the vacant land - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
- Orrin told me that much of the vacant land