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Milvirtha Knight Hendricks (February 27, 1920 - July 20, 2009 [1]) was an African American woman who, on September 1, 2005, was photographed by Eric Gay of the Associated Press outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center huddled in one of several American flag blankets given to her and to several other disaster victims, two days after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. [2]
The site was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2002 and a state historical marker was added in 2003 during events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the hurricane. [53] African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston explored the effects of the hurricane on black migrant workers in her seminal 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were ...
A grieving hurricane survivor whose home was devastated reclaimed some of her most treasured possessions thanks to the heroic efforts of a stranger. When Hurricane Helene made landfall in ...
The bridge that connects Lake Lure and Chimney Rock in Lake Lure, N.C. on Saturday, September 29, 2024. For a couple of days, the wreckage left the two communities as isolated as they were a ...
Residents of the Park Lake Estates neighborhood in New Port Richey, Florida make their way down the flooded streets by foot, bicycle and car Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024.
Tyra Hurricane and Alicia "Tornado" Black are the children of Sylvester Black, who played for the Jamaican Davis Cup team, and Gayal Black. [2] At the age of three, Black was nicknamed "Hurricane" because her parents attempted to make them more marketable as professional tennis players.
The 1996 Lake Huron cyclone, commonly referred to as Hurricane Huron and Hurroncane, [1] [2] was an extremely rare, strong cyclonic storm system that developed over Lake Huron in September 1996. The system resembled a subtropical cyclone at its peak, bearing some characteristics of a tropical cyclone . [ 3 ]
After the deadly hurricane in October, Taylor Schenker, who lives in Canton, North Carolina, nearby hard-hit Asheville, found herself with about 200 family photos that didn't belong to her. It ...