Source: Theodore Decker, KINSTON FREE PRESS, 11/20/18

Can a hurricane kill a community? It’s a question the residents of Mexico Beach, Florida, were asking after Hurricane Michael roared ashore in October, obliterating a city just a little larger than several in North Carolina that endured the same from Hurricane Florence a few weeks earlier. Experts caution that the death of a town is complicated and hard to pin on any one event, even one as catastrophic as a hurricane.

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