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Posted inEditor's Pick

Boots on the Ground

by Seyward Darby May 30, 2023May 30, 2023

“As FEMA struggles to keep up with climate disasters, extremist groups see an opportunity.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Identity Crisis

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 30, 2022November 30, 2022

“In a checklist of responses to a large-scale disaster, victim identification comes low down the pecking order.”

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Posted inFeature

Heroes of the Hurricane

by Longreads November 2, 2022November 2, 2022

When a storm surge swept dozens of wild horses and cattle from the coast of North Carolina, no one expected there to be survivors. Then hoofprints appeared in the sand.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Seventy-Two Hours Under the Heat Dome

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 13, 2021October 19, 2022

“A chronicle of a slow-motion climate disaster that became one of Oregon’s deadliest calamities.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Hawkeye Elegy: A Collision of Pandemic, Disaster, and Polarization in the Heartland

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 8, 2021October 19, 2022

“Last summer a monster storm tore across Iowa, leaving billions of dollars damage in its wake. It was a brutal blow to an economy already reeling from a deadly pandemic and a state divided by politics like never before.”

Posted inNonfiction

The Geography of Risk

by Longreads September 3, 2019January 27, 2023

Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth, so why do taxpayers have to pay for the hurricane damage to rich coastal communities?

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Haruki Murakami Strolls Through His Childhood Home After the Hanshin Earthquake

by Aaron Gilbreath June 21, 2018October 19, 2022

When Haruki Murakami walked the long distance between his childhood home outside Kobe and the city center, he found a city changed by the great Kobe earthquake, and the constant spector of violence.

Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Current Events, Uncategorized

Suburbanizing Survivalism

by Aaron Gilbreath December 11, 2017October 19, 2022

Inside the booming business of survival food.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

28 Voices From the Storm

by Krista Stevens September 26, 2017October 19, 2022

The before, during, and after of how Hurricane Harvey battered Texas for five days.

Posted inUncategorized

‘The fire burned sideways in the cold, red dark’

by Krista Stevens May 25, 2017October 19, 2022

How the worst fire in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in 100 years destroyed 2000 properties, displaced 14,000 people, and killed 14 in under 24 hours.

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