A article recently posted on The Atlantic details how hurricane season tends to be extra devastating for farmers in areas affected by hurricanes. Farmworkers livelihood depend on crops to pick and because of their legal status, they are often fearful about contacting the government when their crops are ruined in the storm. According to the article, in North Carolina 75 percent of cash crops are grown in the eastern part of the state which tends to be the most affected areas when it comes to hurricane flooding. Farmworkers, whose employment is already uncertain because most of them are migrant workers, have especially hard times during hurricane season since the storms often damage large amounts of crops. This leaves workers without jobs and without an income to support their families. The article also details how most farmworkers are pulled a week before the storm hits, further depleting their income.
The situation gets worse for farmworkers living in "campos", which are shoddily built trailers in labor camps near the farms. Most of these trailers were completely destroyed, and many of the workers living in these conditions were made to work during the storm. I think that this article was very interesting since it shows another side of how severe weather can cause distress among people in the community it affects.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/09/hurricane-seasons-new-normal/571159/
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