English Demo
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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In 2017, a powerful hurricane spiral towards the city of Houston texas. When the hurricane hit, it brought fierce winds and huge waves as the hurricane continues onto the land, it's slow town changing from a hurricane into a rainstorm. At first everyone in Houston was relieved the worst was over or so, they thought. But then the rain storm stopped right on top of the city and it kept raining and raining and raining. It wasn't long before streets became rivers, cars floated away, houses were knee deep in water and huge parts of downtown Houston were completely flooded even after the rain stopped. It took weeks for the floodwaters to drain away. Eventually the city was able to see the major damage left by the flood. It took a lot of time money and work to fix the city. So what can we do to make sure this never happens again in Houston or anywhere else, although we can't stop huge amounts of rain from falling. We can change how we prepare for so much rainfall and that leads us to our big question for today, how can we prevent from flooding, butterflies are some of the most visual stunning creatures on earth. They come in all different colors, wink shapes and surprising patterns. Gardeners often go out of their way to plant flowers that will attract butterflies and they especially love this one. The giant swallowtail butterfly. It's one of the largest butterflies on the planet and it is well known for its striking black and yellow wings, but the young caterpillar that grows into the giant swallowtail. It is anything but attractive. In fact, these caterpillars look like, well, they kind of look like bird poop, gross, disgusting. Wait now that one actually is bird poop. You know, it almost seems like these caterpillars wants us to think that their bird poops and they're actually several different kinds of caterpillars that do this. But why? Well, that's our big question for today. Why would a caterpillar pretend to be poop? Let's gather some info to figure this out.