Name: Only one man knew the death recipe for this city
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One evening in November of 2016, a professor was sitting outside in his backyard during a torrential thunderstorm.

The sky was black, rain and hail were falling everywhere, and all around him, all he could hear were countless sirens.

The city was in the middle of a full-scale disaster.

But this professor was not actually shocked, because the day before, he had predicted this, and he had tried to warn people, but his warning had not worked.

And now, people were dying in the exact way he knew they would.

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At 5.30 p.m. on November 21st, 2016, Jodi Santoro, who was a 21-year-old mother in Melbourne, Australia, woke up to the sound of her four-month-old son crying.

Outside, there was this horrible thunderstorm going on.

All this rain and hail were pelting the roof, and the wind was so strong that all the windows in the house were rattling.

Jodi reached over and grabbed her phone on the nightstand and checked the time, and she saw right away that she had overslept.

However, it had been a really hot day that day, and she was so drained from the heat, and also taking care of a four-month-old, that she wasn't really surprised she'd overslept.

But, as the sound of her son's cries intensified, Jodi knew, no matter how tired she was, she needed to get up and go tend to him.

But, the instant her legs swung off the bed and she actually tried to stand up, she knew something was wrong, and it had nothing to do with being tired.

She had this incredible sense of dizziness come over her, and then her chest suddenly tightened up to the point where she could barely even breathe in.

She found herself grabbing the bed just to steady herself.

However, as alarming as this was, Jodi didn't panic.

She had been dealing with asthma for years, and she knew this was the start of an asthma attack.

And so, Jodi reached over for her inhaler on the nightstand.

She picked it up, brought it to her lips, pressed it down, and then took in a measured breath of the medication, expecting to pretty much immediately feel relief.

Jodi, again, pressed down the inhaler, harder this time, and took a bigger breath in, hoping that a bit more medication might do the trick.

And so, now, with panic rising inside of her, she's still struggling to breathe.

Her son is still freaking out, and she can't tend to him.

And all she was thinking is, I have to get my nebulizer, which is basically a more robust version of an inhaler.

It provides more medication more quickly into your body.

However, the nebulizer, which was just over in her closet, required some setup.

And she knew she felt so frantic right now, and she was shaking so much, that she didn't think she'd be able to set it up, or even set it up in time before she passed out.

Just then, her fiancé walked into the bedroom, drawn there by the sound of their son crying.

But, the second he walked in, his attention was not on their son.

It was instead on Jodi, who by now was clutching the bed, and kind of hobbled over, and very clearly having some sort of medical emergency.

Jodi turned to him and began to say, I can't breathe.

But her fiancé already knew she had asthma.

And so, without even needing to be told, he rushed to the closet, set up her nebulizer, and then put the mask right over her face.

And as soon as it was, Jodi took in the biggest inhale she possibly could, really believing this was going to stop the asthma attack.

But just like the inhaler, the nebulizer didn't work.

It felt like with every breath she was taking, her lungs were shrinking, not expanding.

And so, Jodi turned to her fiancé and croaked out, call an ambulance.

And so, her fiancé, who also was now beginning to panic, grabbed the phone, and as he was talking to the dispatcher, trying to relay all the details of what was happening, outside this thunderstorm was only getting worse and worse.

The hail and the rain were battering the sides of the house, and all the windows were shaking.

I mean, it was absolute bedlam inside of this house.

The next few minutes were torture for Jodi.

She laid on the bed, waiting for paramedics.

Her breaths at this point were so small, so shallow, like she knew she was about to pass out any second.

And then finally, the paramedics rushed inside.

She knew there were two people in the room, but it was so chaotic.

And all she could say when they showed up in the room was, I'm going to die.

The paramedics lifted her off the bed, they put her on the gurney, and as they wheeled her out the door towards the ambulance, her world went totally black.

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The paramedics rushed Jodi to Sunshine Hospital, and on the way, they tried to stabilize her by squeezing these oxygen bags, forcing oxygen into Jodi's lungs.

And as they were doing that, Jodi's fiancé was following the ambulance right behind, white-knuckling the steering wheel, praying his fiancé was going to survive this asthma attack.

When the ambulance finally arrived at Sunshine Hospital, the emergency room was mayhem.

Paramedics quickly wheeled Jodi in on her gurney, shouting out her vital signs to the doctors waiting near the door.

Her fiancé, meanwhile, watched helplessly as the medical staff surrounded her and inserted IV lines, hooked up monitors, and began intubating her to force even more oxygen into her lungs.

But fortunately, this rapid medical intervention, once Jodi got to the hospital, appeared to work.

Because not long after getting there, Jodi did begin to stabilize, not enough to suggest that she was actually all better, but her condition basically began to improve.

However, the moment she began to improve, instead of the medical team, you know, talking to her and figuring out what happened and making sure she really was on a path to recovery here, instead, the medical team literally ran out of her room, back out to the front of the ER, because by this point, the Sunshine Hospital ER was overflowing with patients.

There were all these people in the waiting room and also outside, and basically everybody had the same symptoms as Jodi.

They couldn't breathe. There were people slumped on the ground against the wall, screaming for help.

I mean, the medical team was totally overwhelmed.

And on top of that, there were ambulances literally lined up around the block waiting to drop off patients.

But nonetheless, doctors and nurses and the medical team at the hospital worked furiously, moving from one patient to the next, sometimes in an exam room, sometimes out in the waiting room, sometimes outside.

But the weird thing was, is all these people, they had the same symptoms, these severe asthma attacks.

Yet many of the people that were showing up had never had asthma in their lives before.

And really, the situation in the hospital only continued to get worse, with more and more and more patients showing up with worse and worse symptoms.

And so during this madness, Jodi, who really hadn't gotten better, she just stabilized, she actually was moved out of the emergency room and over to the ICU, pretty much just to create one more space for new patients.

And so in the ICU, Jodi's fiancé sat next to her, gripping her hand, listening to the sound of the monitors beeping steadily all around her.

Outside the room, he could see doctors and nurses and medical staff sprinting up and down the hallways, looking frantic and worried.

But it would turn out there actually was someone who knew exactly what was going on.

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