The ballad and the flood

The Broadside

This week, we visit the small town of Marshall in western North Carolina, a region ravaged by Hurricane Helene earlier this year.

But this story isn’t about the storm or climate change or the walls of water that rushed through the Black Mountains in September. It’s about what happened after. How people create systems to help each other. And how the best aspects of humanity can shine in the wake of a disaster.

This episode comes to us from Outside/In. Produced by our friends at New Hampshire Public Radio, it’s a podcast where curiosity and the natural world collide.

Credits:

• Outside/In host: Nate Hegyi
• Reported, written, produced, and mixed by Justine Paradis
• Edited by Taylor Quimby
• The Outside/In team also includes Felix Poon, Marina Henke, and Kate Dario.
• NHPR’s Director of Podcasts is Rebecca Lavoie
• Special thanks to the folks at Poder Emma and Collaborativa La Milpa in Asheville. Thanks also to Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR).

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