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Storms
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Oct 9, 2025
Nine homes have been taken out by the Atlantic Ocean in just the last few weeks? Why so many? Why now? We asked a longtime Outer Banks journalist for some answers.
Helene
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Sep 25, 2025
During Hurricane Helene, Lillian Govus was thrown into a role that she never thought she’d have. A year later, she talks about the trauma she saw, and the trauma she endured.
Apollo 11
Aug 7, 2025
This image from Hurricane Hazel was taken by a legendary photographer and never seems to go away. So who's the guy in the foreground? Only the guy who made it possible to watch the first moon landing!
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Nov 22, 2024
Three (somehow safe for work) stories about a cursed image, innovative funding sources for hurricane relief, and nostalgia for places where people threw up in college.
Oct 8, 2024
In this essay, journalist Jessica Wakeman describes the new norms of life when taps don't work, bathroom rules have changed, showers are scarce, and plastic bottles are sacred.
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Oct 1, 2024
In Black Mountain, the modern ways of communicating aren't working after Hurricane Helene. So town leaders are getting information out with a method that's been around for centuries.
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Sep 29, 2024
Here's a space for this newsletter's readers to share what we know, or what to know after Hurricane Helene.
Sep 26, 2024
A hurricane that formed in the Gulf of Mexico is barrelling north towards the mountains, where catastrophic flooding is likely to happen. So we asked a meteorologist why this storm will hit so hard.
Pope Francis
Dec 10, 2020
A tiny community along a dead-end road got a divine flyover a few years ago. The view on the ground is much different, and two decades after he came, one visitor still can't bring himself to leave.
