Description

Hurricane Helene wiped out hundreds of roadways in western North Carolina. Now engineers are working to fill the holes the storm left behind. But how do you rebuild a road that’s meant to last in a climate that’s changing quicker than we can keep up?

Featuring: 

• 
  Nathan Moneyham, Division Construction Engineer for North Carolina Department of Transportation, Division 13
• 
  Matt Lauffer, State Hydraulics Engineer for North Carolina Department of Transportation
• 
  Lauren Sommer, climate correspondent for NPR
• 
  Jared Bowden, Associate Director for North Carolina State Climate Office

Links: 

• 
  NOAA’s Atlas 14 database
• The RaInDROP tool developed by Jared Bowden 
• You can find a transcript of this episode here.

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