Good morning! I hope that you are safe, dry, and that you have power, and that the same goes for those people and places you hold dear.
- Firsthand accounts of Irma’s impact in Savannah.
- Glynn County’s borders are closed until officials determine the scope of the damage.
- No power? No bucket trucks in sight? That doesn’t mean people aren’t hard at work restoring power.
- Georgia DFCS released food benefits early this month to help families impacted by Irma.
- Amazon is coming to Atlanta! No, not HQ2 (YET). But it’s 150 jobs in Midtown Atlanta.
- Several members of an “uncontacted” Brazilian tribe were reportedly massacred by gold miners.
- What it’s like to be trapped by a Category 5 hurricane.
- What does surviving a hurricane mean for a child’s mental health?
- A riveting, heartbreaking account of what it means to be an ad hoc dispatcher for the Cajun Navy.
- The “risky task” of evacuating senior prior to a hurricane.
- “When you evacuate, there is an inherent body count for frail, older adults.”
- Riveting journalism from Cincinnatti: Seven days in the region’s heroin epidemic.
- How Dan Rather changed the way we understand hurricanes.
- Your Nasty Kitchen Sponge, Part The Third: It’s not quite as dangerous as Big Sponge wants you to think it is.
- The first Piggly Wiggly opened its doors 101 years ago this month.
- “One day Memphis shall be proud of Piggly Wiggly… And it shall be said by all men… That the Piggly Wigglies shall multiply and replenish the earth with more and cleaner things to eat”
- Why did boys swim naked in Chicago’s public schools until the late 1970s?
- Why it’s hard to write about Florida. A beautiful, funny essay about our most misunderstood – and underestimated – state.
- “It takes 15 minutes for the people at Publix to build my pub sub, which is 12 minutes longer than any other establishment takes to make a sandwich. But I’d stand in line longer than that if I had to.”