Pride and Prejudice

Last fall, the waters rose in Appalachia and did not stop until many were dead and many more were homeless. As the remnants of Hurricane Helene tore through the region, I waited for word of family and friends, and watched online as they documented the destruction. In tiny Damascus, Virginia, the town nearest my childhood home, the waters inundated the main street and tore houses off their foundations. Soon I saw something worse on social media: when the Nolichucky River overflowed in Erwin, Tennessee, it swept away workers at a nearby plastics factory. Survivors said their bosses had called them into the plant despite troubling forecasts, and when the flooding began, forbade them to leave

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