It's hurricane season, and that means freakish weather even thousands of miles from the eye of a storm. Trace back the ripple effects of hurricanes, and you'll find a lot more than just rainy days. Just a few degrees away from Katrina and Jimena are stories about humanity: displacement, re-invention, evolution, art, and even bureaucracy. Here is one trail of Web breadcrumbs that has billowed in with the storms.
The East Coast is just now seeing the sun after a spate of rains pushed in by Tropical Depression Danny, but another hurricane is bustling up behind it. Hurricane Jimena is motoring towards the continent with winds topping 135 mph and heading straight for Mexico's Cabo San Lucas, ready to ruin the vacations of beach-goers and provide much needed rain to an area so parched that cattle are dying. But in Maine, locals are still mourning the death of a 7-year-old girl...
The East Coast is just now seeing the sun after a spate of rains pushed in by Tropical Depression Danny, but another hurricane is bustling up behind it. Hurricane Jimena is motoring towards the continent with winds topping 135 mph and heading straight for Mexico's Cabo San Lucas, ready to ruin the vacations of beach-goers and provide much needed rain to an area so parched that cattle are dying. But in Maine, locals are still mourning the death of a 7-year-old girl...
- 8/31/2009
- by Chris Dannen
- Fast Company
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