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Oral history interview with Billy Ray Hall, January 20, 2000 interview K-0509, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with Billy Ray Hall, January 20, 2000 interview K-0509, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Interview with Billy Ray Hall, January 20, 2000 (portion title)
Interview K-0509, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Hall, Billy Ray 1948- (interviewee). Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956- (interviewer). Southern Oral History Program. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

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

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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.
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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.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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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-
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