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Oral history interview with Billy Ray Hall, January 20, 2000 [electronic resource] : interview K-0509, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Summary:

Billy Ray Hall, as President of the Rural Economic Development Center, coordinated North Carolina's clean-up and recovery efforts after Hurricane Floyd. In this information-rich interview, Hall discusses the scope of the damage in eastern North Carolina. He focuses on the economic effects of the flood, but briefly discusses the environmental impact as well, claiming that the much-feared hog lagoon flooding actually had only marginal impact. Hall describes how a lack of preparation stifled North Carolina's response to flooding and wind damage, but he thinks the ongoing recovery effort is going well and is optimistic about North Carolina's future preparedness. Hall does not describe at any length how North Carolinians affected by the flood responded to the disaster and its aftermath, and he does not go into detail about on-the-ground rebuilding programs. This interview would be well complemented by one that offers more depth on individual subjects, such as farm recovery or home construction.

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Record details

  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Duration: 00:45:25.
Interview participants: Charles Thompson, interviewer; Billy Ray Hall, interviewee.
Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Natalia Smith and Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Seth M. Kotch.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Title from menu page (viewed on June 15, 2007).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 90.7 kilobytes, 83.2 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0509, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Tony Young. Original transcript: 28 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the University of North Carolina Library supported the electronic publication of this interview.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.
Subject:
Hall, Billy Ray, 1948- > Interviews.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency.
North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center.
Crisis management in government > North Carolina.
Crop losses > North Carolina.
Disaster relief > North Carolina.
Emergency management > North Carolina.
Flood damage > North Carolina.
Floods > North Carolina.
Hurricane Floyd, 1999.
Hurricane Fran, 1996.
Livestock > Losses > North Carolina.
North Carolina > Politics and government > 1951-
Genre:
Oral histories.

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