The Storm Council

arts, fiction · EN

Every hurricane that has ever struck the American coast left behind two stories. The first is the one you already know — the wind speed, the category, the damage estimate, the aerial footage of flattened neighborhoods. That story gets told within hours of landfall and forgotten within weeks. The second story is the one that explains why the damage was that severe, why the warnings arrived too late, why the people who died were living where they were living, and why the institutions responsible for protecting them made the decisions they made. That story takes longer to tell. It requires historical records, engineering reports, congressional testimony, meteorological data, and a willingness to sit with complexity instead of reaching for simple explanations. The Storm Council tells the second story. This podcast examines the deadliest hurricanes in American history — not as weather events, but as the collision points between natural systems and human decisions. The s