For Lack of a Fax: Co-Authoring Disaster in North Carolina and the Gulf Coast
The events in the wake of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast of the U.S.—the appalling ineptitude and insensitivity of the federal agencies whose payrolls taxpayers fund to help U.S. residents during times of disaster—come as no surprise to those of us in eastern North Caroli...
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Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma
2024
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| Online pristup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sažetak: | The events in the wake of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast of the U.S.—the appalling ineptitude and insensitivity of the federal agencies whose payrolls taxpayers fund to help U.S. residents during times of disaster—come as no surprise to those of us in eastern North Carolina who lived through a similar, though much smaller, event in September 1999. As we anxiously watched the satellite images of a hurricane the size of Texas approach us, we were assured by the Red C... |
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