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Richard Moore , Jay Barnes

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2015

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Publié par

The University of North Carolina Press

Date de parution

01 décembre 2015

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9798890877765

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

On September 16, 1999, rainfall from Hurricane Floyd swelled North Carolina's rivers, flooding tens of thousands of homes, businesses, and communities across the eastern third of the state; taking 52 lives; and causing an estimated $6 billion in damages. Faces from the Flood is a compelling look back at the state's most destructive natural disaster, conveyed through the words of those who endured it.
Thirty-seven interviews with victims, heroes, volunteers, scientists, and government officials offer tales of dramatic rescues, sorrowful losses, and the quiet determination to survive and rebuild. The story of Floyd is far from over, and North Carolinians must be prepared to face similar storms in the future, warn Richard Moore and Jay Barnes. They conclude with an assessment of the state's response to Floyd and a discussion of what programs should be initiated, maintained, or strengthened to prepare for future storms.
Through evocative personal stories, maps, tables, and dozens of striking photographs, Faces from the Flood highlights the dramatic impact of Hurricane Floyd. It will serve as a valuable reference for future explorations of North Carolina's greatest disaster.

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Publié par

The University of North Carolina Press

Date de parution

01 décembre 2015

EAN13

9798890877765

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

Faces from the Flood

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HURRICANE FLOYD REMEMBERED Richard Moore and Jay Barnes                               |                

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Page i: A young girl gathers canned food for her family at a Tarboro relief center after ﬂoodwaters swamped her home. (Photo by David Weaver; courtesy of theRocky Mount Telegram)

Page iii: Larry Torrez wades through chest-deep waters near a home on South Hillcrest Drive in Goldsboro. In communities submerged by Hurri-cane Floyd, residents were forced either to wait patiently for rescue or to move about under treacherous conditions. (Photo by Brian Strick-land; courtesy of theGoldsboro News-Argus)

Page v: Volunteers at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh load relief supplies onto a truck bound for Rocky Mount. People from across the state and the nation pitched in to help the victims of Hurricane Floyd. (Photo by John Rottet; courtesy of theRaleigh News and Observer)

Pages vi-vii: Floodwaters ﬁlled the streets of Bound Brook, New Jersey, after the passage of Floyd in September 1999. (Photo by Daniel Hulshizer; courtesy of Associated Press)

Page ix: Lonnie Smith, a twenty-three-year-old Marine stationed in New Orleans, drove more than a thousand miles toward Hubert to check on his family before ﬂoodwaters stalled his minivan on258. Two fellow Marines used their truck to pull Smith from the ﬂood. Driving in ﬂoods is hazardous, and well over half the fatalities attrib-uted to Floyd in North Carolina involved motor-ists attempting to cross submerged roads. (Photo by Don Bryan; courtesy of theJacksonville Daily News)

Page xv: Employees of Murphy Family Farms, along with friends and neighbors, ﬂoat a group of dead pigs down a ﬂooded road near Beulaville in the days following Hurricane Floyd. (Photo by Alan Marler; courtesy of Associated Press)

Page 217: Kayla and Kristen Graham examine a toppled oak tree one block from their home on Lenoir Avenue in Kinston. Though ﬂoodwaters caused the greatest destruction, high winds still created problems along the path of the storm. (Photo by Charles Buchanan; courtesy of the Kinston Free Press)

This book is

dedicated to the

thousands of North

Carolinians who

suffered during

the great ﬂood of

1999, and to the

countless men and

women who gave

them comfort.

Contents

ix Preface

1Introduction. The Storm and the Flood 17 Chronology of Hurricane Floyd and the Flood of 1999

21Faces from the Flood 23 Richard Moore 27 Kurt Barnes 35 Diane LeFiles 44 Lindy Pierce 47 James Mercer 51 Bob Williams 55 Steve Harned 58 Janice Bailey 61 Bo Fussell 65 Bobby Joyner 70 Jewel Kilpatrick 73 Ed Maness 80 Annice Narcise 82 Charlotte Webb

87 J. C. Heath 92 David Cummiskey 98 Ken Mullen 102 Hazel Sorrell 106 Delia Perkins 112 Chris Hackney 116 Steve Burress 120 Buster Leverette and Cynthia Burnett 128 Faye Stone 134 Al Price 136 Clifton Mills 140 Drew Pearson 144 Barbara Stiles 150 Todd Davison

159 Billy Kornegay 163 Ronnie Rich 166 Allan Hoffman 174 Bill Ellis 176 John Morgan 179 Robert Egleston 183 Carolyn Hunt 187 Stan Riggs

195The Fatalities

201The Next Disaster

213 Acknowledgments 217 Index

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The passage of Hurricane Floyd through eastern North Carolina in Septem-ber 1999 produced an epic ﬂood that ranks as the most widespread, destruc-tive, and deadly natural disaster in North Carolina’s history. Sixty-six counties were declared disaster areas, damage estimates exceeded $6 billion, and there were ﬁfty-two reported fatalities. More than sixty thousand homes were ﬂooded, and of these, many were hit rapidly and unexpectedly. Hundreds of desperate victims had to be rescued from rooftops and submerged vehicles. Floyd tested our state and its people like no other previous experience. Faces from the Floodis a recollection of Hurricane Floyd told in the words of those who endured it. It features three dozen ﬁrsthand accounts from those who experienced the ﬂood, including victims, volunteers, heroes, scientists, and government oﬃcials. Their stories cover dramatic rescues, sorrowful losses, and uplifting displays of spirit and courage. We began with the hope of selecting stories that would serve as represen-tative examples of the ways the state’s residents encountered Floyd. But for every person whose tale appears here, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of others whose experiences, though similar, were in their own way just as unique, just as deserving of being told. With this publication, then, we reﬂect on our state’s greatest disaster through the lens of a few people’s experiences, and in

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