A hurricane that changed federal storm response

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By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman Even as Hurricane Milton hits Florida, communities across the Southeast are still recovering from the devastating damage caused by Hurricane Helene, which ravaged towns far inland and long after landfall. The frequency and strength of such storms—and their power to affect so many people—are blaring an alarm about our shared vulnerability to weather events in an age of climate crisis.  But as Justin McBrien writes in Made by History, there are precedents we can look to that help us better understand that non-coastal communities must also be prepared for damaging storms. Inland, rural communities have faced devastation from hurricanes before, and in fact mountainous terrain can exacerbate a storm’s impact. In 1969, Hurricane Camille hit Nelson County, Va., causing catastrophic flash flooding and killing 153 people. It was the deadliest and costliest natural disaster in Virginia’s history, and it prompted changes to federal government storm response. Yet over time, the memory of this inland damage faded, and the public came to see such places as a haven. As McBrien argues, this story shows us how America has forgotten a key lesson of hurricane history—and why it's so crucial to remember.

HISTORY ON TIME.COM How Liberal Blunders Handed the Right the Supreme Court By Michael Bobelian / Made by History The surprising roots of the current conservative super-majority. Read More » #Tradwife Influencers Totally Misunderstand the Lives of 19th Century Women By Marissa C. Rhodes / Made by History Nineteenth century wives and mothers didn't just stay home; they were activists and religious leaders. Read More » Ethel Kennedy, Social Activist and Wife of Robert F. Kennedy, Has Died By MICHAEL CASEY and STEVE LeBLANC / AP Ethel Kennedy, the wife of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy who was dedicated to social causes, has died at age 96. Read More » The Vilification of Springfield's Haitians Taps Into a Long and Troubling History By Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús / Made by History Lies about Haitian migrants in Ohio tap into centuries-old racial fears about Black and brown people. Read More » What History Can Teach Us About Constipation and the Gut By Elsa Richardson We've historically been obsessed with constipation. It's shaped how we think about the gut, writes Elsa Richardson. Read More »

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FROM THE TIME VAULT This week in 1982: The Middle East Richard Avedon The Oct. 11, 1982, cover of TIME “In Lebanon, foreign soldiers troop the streets of Beirut in hopes of keeping that country’s feuding factions from one another’s throats. In Israel, a nation shaken by the question of its culpability, by omission or commission, for the massacre of Palestinians in Beirut, Prime Minister Menachem Begin faces the greatest challenge yet to his five-year rule. Against this backdrop, TIME begins excerpting on the following pages the memoirs of an American President, who, as he writes, “spent more of my time working for possible solutions to the riddle of Middle East peace than on any other international problem.” It was Jimmy Carter who brought Begin and Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat together for 13 days of highly charged negotiations that finally produced the Camp David accords of September 1978. That agreement remains the framework for a broader peace settlement now being pushed forcefully by Ronald Reagan.” Read More » This week in 1996: Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn GREG GORMAN The Oct. 7, 1996, cover of TIME “Women scorned, women afraid of being scorned–and some curious men along for the ride–are helping The First Wives Club break records. Its $18.9 million opening weekend was the highest ever for a so-called women’s film…The First Wives Club is dipping into a bottomless well of shared female rage. It is rage at the imbalance of power that allows men to use up the best years of a woman’s life, then trade her in for an ingenue–and rage at every single element that goes into that scenario: the obsession with youth and looks, the persistent inequality in income, the devaluing of a woman’s contribution to the family and to a man’s success.” Read More » This week in 2005: the battle over gay teens PHOTOGRAPH FOR TIME BY KATJA HEINEMANN The Oct. 10, 2005, cover of TIME “Kids are disclosing their homosexuality with unprecedented regularity–and they are doing so much younger. The average gay person now comes out just before or after graduating high school…Children who become aware of their homosexual attractions no longer need endure the baleful combination of loneliness and longing that characterized the childhoods of so many gay adults. Gay kids can now watch fictional and real teens who are out on shows like Desperate Housewives, the dating show Next on MTV and Degrassi (a high school drama on the N network whose wild popularity among adolescents is assured by the fact that few adults watch it).” Read More »

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