Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_17 (find matches)
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Publisher: (Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina
Digitizing Sponsor: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

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he buzz starts when a meteorologist points out a white, swirling storm cloud on the radar far off in the Atlantic. As the weeks go by, the cloud takes a powerful form and achieves hurricane- naming status. Soon, students become hurricane-trackers in their science classes, and folks start to grumble with talk of "funny feelings" that this hurricane could be "the big one." Once the storm approaches the United States and takes the almost predictable rum toward North Carolina, a mad dash to the grocery store ensues. Suddenly, bread and milk — along with masking tape, bottled water and large squares of plywood — are nowhere to be found along the coast. Throughout the chaos, locals face an important decision: travel inland or ride out the storm one more time. With some of the most deadly hurricanes having occurred in the fall, the onslaught of hurricane season 2004 — and the anniversaries of several major storms — sets the mood for good books on hurricanes. • FACES FROM THE FLOOD: HURRICANE FLOYD REMEMBERED, by Richard Moore and Jay Barnes. 2004. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC27515-2288.225pages. Hardback, $29.95. ISBN 0-8078-2861-0. This book is about residents of North Caro- lina — from Oak Island to Kinston, Rocky Mount and Greenville — who maintain an undying con- nection to Hurricane Floyd and resulting flooding in September 1999. The book is dedicated to the 52 people who lost their lives. But mere descriptions will never express the devastation that, through news coverage and charity efforts, bound affected communities to people across the country. Batten Down with a Book
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Faces from the Flood offers an intimate view — small slices of the thousands of personal stories behind the hurricane. Authors Richard Moore and Jay Barnes elicit amazing stories from folks who explain that they did what any good person would do. Rocky Mount resident Kurt Barnes fits such a description. Forced to swim through his flooded neighborhood toward high ground, Barnes couldn't forget his neighbors in need. He located a motorboat and steered through torrents of rising water, compounded by high winds and rain — ultimately rescuing 18 people stranded on various rooftops, attics and porches. His bravery earned him the 2000 Governor's Award for Heroism. The fol- lowing excerpts of personal stories featured in Faces from the Flood: Hurricane Floyd Re- membered need little review or introduction. "Wluit scared me so much was the mother with her three-month-old newborn baby. She walked around to get in the boat, and I said, 'Let me have that baby' She lianded the baby to me. We had no lifejacket for that baby, but I had a blanket. So just as slie walked around, I'm trying to hold that baby, hold that boat, and get her in the boat, she walked right offtliat porch. Tlie water was so deep, she didn 'tknow where the porch ended. She just Continued COASTWATCH 21

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