Flood stories: seeing ‘the good come out in people’

Amy Taylor says she “saw the good come out in people.” Sabrina Martiello remembers with sadness a list of street addresses, a catalog of homes made uninhabitable by flood waters. These are different dots on the same timeline — two weeks when the Neuse River and its creeks, funneling destruction and misery after the torrential rains of Hurricane Matthew, submerged property and washed away the routine of daily life around which people build plans and fashion their aspirations. The everyday came to a standstill in much of Lenoir County. http://tinyurl.com/yca2jdov Schools closed, of course, but while the buildings sat idle Taylor and Martiello… read more →