Hurricane Season Is Especially Hard for Farmworkers
Flooding from the latest storm highlights a particularly vulnerable population.
by Ariel Ramchandani
Sep 25, 2018
4 minutes
Gloria Castillo Luna, a single mother of four living in Faison, North Carolina, evacuated her family from the home she rents to a shelter just before Hurricane Florence hit a little more than a week ago. Luna and her kids had a terrible experience during a storm two years ago, so she knew the shelter was worth the trip. “After my experience with my children during Hurricane Matthew, which felt very dangerous, I knew that we should go,” she said on the phone through a translator. “I did not want to put my children at risk.”
But when the family
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