After The Flood
Kind World
WBUR
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Coach Kevin Motsinger was one of many North Carolinians displaced by Hurricane Florence earlier this year. Despite his own devastating losses, the 45-year-old high school football coach focused on rebuilding his small, rural town.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the I-Lab at W-B-U-R Boston |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Kind World from W-B-U-R. |
| 0:11.0 | The Wallace Rose Hill High School Bulldogs were just starting off their football season, |
| 0:16.0 | ready to compete for their fifth straight state championship title. |
| 0:20.0 | The players who call themselves brothers are led by 45 year old coach Kevin Motzinger. |
| 0:27.0 | He's known as the firm but fair head of their football family. |
| 0:31.0 | I've always treated the kids like I'd want somebody to treat my kids. |
| 0:35.2 | The team is beloved by its community in Duplin County, a small rural low-income area in |
| 0:41.0 | southeastern North Carolina. |
| 0:43.4 | Our whole county and everything involved, industrial-wise, |
| 0:47.5 | is agricultural. |
| 0:49.1 | That is the industry here. |
| 0:50.9 | Our school is just hard-working, poor country folks. |
| 0:57.0 | Early in the football season, disaster struck. |
| 1:00.0 | North Carolina is now under a state of emergency ahead of Florence. |
| 1:04.6 | As many as a million people have evacuated inland to higher ground, but many have stayed behind |
| 1:09.9 | to take their chances against what is expected to be a very dangerous next several days. |
| 1:15.0 | Our big story this morning is Hurricane Florence. Forecasters watching the hurricane are |
| 1:19.5 | warning it could cause terrible damage and loss of life over a huge area of the US. |
| 1:25.2 | The National Weather Service describes it as, quote, the storm of a lifetime. |
| 1:31.0 | Hurricane Florence was on the horizon approaching quickly. |
| 1:34.3 | The storm's intensity peaked at category 5, the highest rating possible. |
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