Oliver Whang
Oliver Whang
Writer at @natgeo ... other stories for @nytimes @npr @atlasobscura ... if you have a good story, especially about rural places, send to oliver.h.whang@natgeo.comSource
Prestonsburg, KY
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Waiting for the Help That Was Promised in Eastern Kentucky

Waiting for the Help That Was Promised in Eastern Kentucky

Robin Jaynes, who’s forty-five, was born and raised in Magoffin County, in eastern Kentucky. Not quite a decade ago, her third husband, Tim, was forced to retire, and Robin, who spent much of her twenties and thirties raising six children, began looking for a job. Tim grew up at the head of a holler in neighboring Johnson County, near the West Virginia border, and served for fifteen years in the Army, until he was honorably discharged, in 1993, after developing a tremor, and he went to work at Family Dollar. He started seeing Robin ten years later, and they had a son, Timmy, in 2006. After...

October 27, 2020
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How we name hurricanes, and why we do it

How we name hurricanes, and why we do it

Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.At 11 a.m. on Friday, September 18, Tropical Depression 21 became Tropical Storm Wilfred. When another tropical storm formed near Portugal later that same day, it was labeled with the first letter of the Greek alphabet: Alpha. When yet another tempest formed in the afternoon in the western Gulf of Mexico, it was named Beta.The lasts from June to November, and in the shortest amount of time in recorded history. Only twice has the National Hurricane Center (NHC) ever run out of human names for tropical storms and had to turn to...

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