hurricanes

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/19/2022
  

  Hurricanes Have Been an Impediment to Racial Justice Before

  by Brandon T. Jett

  The hurricane that hit Miami in 1926 caused extensive damage to the city and killed more than 300 people. It also derailed a grand jury investigation into a lynching in Lee County, a rare instance of public pressure to stop racist terrorism. Will Florida's rebuilding take attention from fights against regressive politics in the state?

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/4/2022
  

  Southwest Florida's Overdevelopment Made Ian Worse

  by Zeke Baker

  Massive hydrological projects undertaken to make Southwest Florida's wetlands into developable agricultural land and then high-priced real estate removed the key buffers for coastal floods. Storms like Ian are a rebuke to the idea that humanity and commerce can bend nature to their will. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/2/2022
  

  The Fatal Attraction to Florida

  by Diane Roberts

  Growth may make the Sunshine State unlivable. 

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• SOURCE: Rolling Stone
  9/16/2021
  

  Cajun Punk Musician Louis Michot on Saving the Bayous

  by Andy Horowitz

  Can the DIY punk ethos of mutual aid, plus broadly distributed solar power, save the Louisiana Cajun country from the climate threat? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/1/2021
  

  The U.S. Should Look to Cuba for Hurricane Mitigation

  by Mikael Wolfe

  Despite the comparatively meager resources available in the island nation, Cuba's civil defense systems, developed during the Cold War, have been remarkably successful in mitigating mass death and displacement from hurricanes. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/31/2021
  

  Hurricane Ida Shows the Climate Dystopia Ahead for All of Us

  by Andy Horowitz

  "Structural problems need structural solutions. Don’t give charity to Louisiana because it’s unique. Demand that Congress take meaningful action, because Louisiana is not unique, and you may be next."

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• SOURCE: TIME
  8/4/2020
  

  How Understanding the History of Hurricanes Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Big One

  by Eric Jay Dolin

  We, as a society, can decide how best to respond to the continued barrage that is sure to come from the greatest storms on earth, thereby lessening their impact.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/9/19
  

  Risk rooted in colonial era weighs on Bahamas’ efforts to rebuild after Hurricane Dorian

  by Jason von Meding, David O. Prevatt, and Ksenia Chmutina

  The historical context of injustice, discrimination and inequality – experienced through social structures that cause harm to certain people – is often missing. This context informs today’s risk.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/5/19
  

  Here's Why U.S. Law Prohibits Claiming That a 'Counterfeit Weather Forecast' Is Official

  When President Trump held up a map of Hurricane Dorian’s projected path, it included a Sharpie-drawn extension to show the storm hitting Alabama.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  8/31/19
  

  As Hurricane Dorian Threatens Florida, Gov. DeSantis & Trump—Who Haven't Curbed CO2 Emissions—Should Resign

  by Juan Cole

  If you don’t recognize the cause of a problem, you can’t fix the problem.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/19
  

  Nukes, plugs and walls: Humanity’s harebrained schemes for combating natural disasters

  Whether we’re considering corking the top of an erupting volcano, erecting a wall to guard against a tornado or pumping water into a fault line to stop an earthquake, humanity’s solutions are often shortsighted and sloppy.

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• 9-14-17
  

  What It Was Like Living Through Irma at a Shelter

  by Pearl Duncan

  A geologist’s experience and the lessons she learned.

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• 9-17-17
  

  Was It Bad Luck or Climate Change?

  by Sam White

  Harvey and Irma take us back to an old problem.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-12-17
  

  The cost of coastal capitalism: How greedy developers left Miami ripe for destruction

  by Andrew W. Kahrl

  Building on vulnerable coastlines isn't about ignorance or hubris — it's about profit.

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  2-13-15
  

  Monster Hurricanes Battered US Northeast 800 Years Ago

  A new study of sediment deposits from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, shows that 23 severe hurricanes hit New England between 250 and 1150 CE.

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• SOURCE: Pulse
  9-23-13
  

  NOAA puts 170 years of hurricane history into one interactive site

  The site serves up data on global hurricanes as they made landfall going back to 1842.

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• 10-23-05
  

  Was Katrina the Biggest, the Worst Natural Disaster in U.S. History?

  by Normand Forgues-Roy

  How did Katrina compare with other natural disasters?