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Interview no. | K-0606 |
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 | 22 August 2002 |
Interviewee | Corbett, Robin. |
Interviewee occupation |
Professors Nurses |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Barnes, Jay. |
Abstract | Associate Professor of Nursing at East Carolina University School of Nursing. Expected hurricane to hit brother in Florida; went to Washington, D.C. for a conference but then returned to family in North Carolina when realized hurricane would hit N.C. coast; gets involved in Emergency Center; works as nurse at Carver rescue station, serving Dodge City evacuees; way everyone in shelter helps; uses food from local elementary school; situation surmounts normal racial tensions; links between individuals in health care profession in small town area allows to detal with difficulties of medication post-flood; value of funerals in dealing with losses; stories of Bill Clinton's visit; problems with special needs patients. Emphasizes value of humor and good team effort. |
Subject Topical |
Nurses--North Carolina. Hurricane Floyd, 1999. Hurricanes--North Carolina. Disaster relief--North Carolina. Disaster relief--North Carolina. |
Citation | Interview with Robin Corbett by Jay Barnes, 22 August 2002 K-0606, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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