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Interview no. | K-0611 |
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 | 10 June 2002 |
Interviewee | Harned, Steve. |
Interviewee occupation | Executives |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Barnes, Jay. |
Abstract | Director of National Weather Service in Raleigh (N.C.); fear as he realized strength and potential damage of storm; happy as storm dropped down two cateogires; special characteristics of the rainfall accompanying Floyd; Floyd as 500 year flood; forecasts good but unable to prepare for flood; worried about people beceoming complacent in the aftermath; currently working on enhancing flood maps of North Carolina; personal reaction to seeing flooding; value of and danger of seasonal hurricane forecasts. |
Subject Topical |
Hurricane Floyd, 1999. Floods--North Carolina. Hurricanes--North Carolina. Meteorology. |
Subject Name | United States. National Weather Service. |
Citation | Interview with Steve Harned by Jay Barnes, 10 June 2002 K-0611, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | K0611_Audio_1 |