Amy Goodman
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Lissa Harris of Watershed Post on Providing News to NY Rural Communities Flooded by Irene
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September 2, 2011
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5:08Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - A growing tropical depression that could drop 15 inches of rain on the Gulf Coast this weekend comes just a week after Hurricane Irene devastated parts of the East Coast. We look at one of the hardest hit areas — the Catskills region of New York. While flood waters have largely receded, the cleanup and rebuilding effort has just begun and will take months. At least 600 homes and 140,000 acres of farmland have been destroyed. State officials estimate 150 major highways need to be partially rebuilt and 22 state bridges have been closed, leaving some sections of the Catskills completely cut off. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says that the state faces $1 billion in damages from the powerful tropical storm. We speak with Lissa Harris, an editor of the Watershed Post, a website based in the Catskills that has become one of the region's main sources of news of the disaster.
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