AFTER Writing the final blog post in this series has proved to be slower and harder than the previous ones. I began writing this last installment so that it could be ready by the beginning of the 2018 hurricane season in June. It is a… Read More »Documenting Disaster Folklore in the Eye of the Storm: A Retrospective 6 Months After María (Part 3: After)
DURING I woke with a start; the room was completely dark. It took me a few seconds to get my bearings before realizing that a strong gust of wind combined with a fine mist of water hitting my face had woken me up. The bed… Read More »Documenting Disaster Folklore in the Eye of the Storm: A Retrospective 6 Months After María (Part 2: During)
BEFORE Has it already been half a year since Hurricane María? Sometimes it feels like decades have passed and at other moments as if it has only been a couple of days. As I sit in front of my computer in Bloomington, Indiana, I remain… Read More »Documenting Disaster Folklore in the Eye of the Storm: A Retrospective 6 Months After María (Part 1: Before)