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Interview no. | K-0631 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | K.2.13. Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Voices after the Deluge, the Great North Carolina Flood |
Project description | Interviews, 1999-2003, with flood victims, rescue workers, relief workers, ministers, farmers, farm workers, small-business owners, environmental monitors, and political leaders in eastern North Carolina about the devastating flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Topics include the toll of the flood on human lives; disruptions to community and sense of place; political response to the disaster at local, state, and national levels; public health and environmental issues; the effect of the disaster on the region's most vulnerable residents; and the experiences of relief workers. Some interviewees offer parallels between the hurricane and other tragedies, particularly 9/11. |
Date | 26 August 2002 |
Interviewee | Riggs, Stanley R. |
Interviewee occupation |
Professors Scientists |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Barnes, Jay. |
Abstract | East Carolina University professor of geology, flood authority; personal and professional history and connections with Eastern North Carolina; explanation of why floods happened; flood comparisons; changes to geology that set up flood conditions; changes after flood; ditching and draining swamp lands. |
Subject Topical |
Hurricane Floyd, 1999. Floods--North Carolina. Geology. |
Citation | Interview with Stanley R. Riggs by Jay Barnes, 26 August 2002 K-0631, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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