The Fury of a Flood. The Roanoke Flood of 1985
- Categories
- Appalachian Collections > Appalachian Folklife Archive
- Subject
- Appalachia
- Oral histories--Appalachia
- Folklore--Appalachia
- Natural disasters.
- Roanoke (Va)
- Creator
- Fuchs, Eric
- Parr, Susan
- Trenis, Tom
- Type
- text and audio
- Coverage - Temporal
- 2000
- Date
- 2000-11-28
- 2020-09-21
- Identifier
- 200.446.08.pdf
- Language
- english
- Publisher
- Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center. Radford University
- Archives & Special Collections. McConnell Library. Radford University
- Description
- November 1985 is a time many resident of Southwest Virginia remember because of the flooding in the Roanoke Valley. The remnants of hurricane Juan and a lingering storm that had been stalled over Roanoke for several days intersected and dumped 6 inches of rain in 24 hours on an already waterlogged city. Power was knocked out for days, houses and businesses were flooded sometimes with as much as 5 feet of water inside them. In the end the flooding spread from Montgomery to Rockingham County. In this project, Eric Fuchs interviewed two people who lived through the flood to record their memories of the storm and its aftermath. This interview is among projects created by students enrolled in English 446 (initially English 452), “Appalachian Folklore,” 1981-2019, and in graduate level counterparts English 548 and 648 “Appalachian Folk Culture(s)” offered 17 fall semesters between 1987 and 2009. Minimally contain collector’s introduction and analysis, transcribed informant interviews, and excerpted and labeled examples of oral, customary, and/or material folklore/folklife collected primarily within the Appalachian region. Most include also tables of contents, informant information, indexes (outlines) of interviews, photographs, miscellaneous paper items, and indexes of informants, genres, and geographic locations. Accompanying audio recordings (several minutes to 2+ hours). Transferred to McConnell Library Archives & Special Collections from Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center, Fall 2013.
- Rights
- All rights are reserved by the original creators and their informants, excepting those expressly provided in a permission form on file in the Archives offices. Content is available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections, Radford University, Radford, VA). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of Radford University, is strictly prohibited. Please refer to the McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections website for more information.