Nick Underwood

2 months ago | wlrn.org | Jacey Fortin |Rachel Nostrant |Isabelle Taft |Nick Underwood

When the rain began to pour over Green Mountain, North Carolina, in late September, Alison Wisely kept a close eye on the puddles growing slowly outside her window. Hurricane Helene was churning across the American South, and Wisely, 42, and her fiancé, Knox Petrucci, 41, were hunkering at home with her two young sons. The house was hundreds of miles from any coastline. On the morning of Sept. 27, a nearby river overflowed, and catastrophe came quickly.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jacey Fortin |Rachel Nostrant |Isabelle Taft |Nick Underwood

When the rain began to pour over Green Mountain, N.C., in late September, Alison Wisely kept a close eye on the puddles growing slowly outside her window. Hurricane Helene was churning across the American South, and Ms. Wisely, 42, and her fiancé, Knox Petrucci, 41, were hunkering at home with her two young sons. The house was hundreds of miles from any coastline. On the morning of Sept. 27, a nearby river overflowed, and catastrophe came quickly.

Jan 18, 2025 | nytimes.com | Jonathan Wolfe |Emily Baumgaertner |Mike Baker |Marco Hernandez |K.K. Rebecca Lai |K.K. Rebecca Lai | +9 more

Aug 29, 2024 | nick-underwood.com | Nick Underwood

Using 2017 census data, we displace each geographic unit vertically based on median annual household income. Low-income neighborhoods sink into canyons ↓, while rich areas soar far above the city as high plateaus. ↑ Sea level is set equal to the median US income of $59,000 per year as a visual reference.

Aug 12, 2024 | myjewishlearning.com | Nick Underwood

Jews have been present in France since Roman times. In the first century of the Common Era, Jews were found in and around the area now known as Lyon. By the sixth century, they had built the country’s first synagogue on the Île de la Cité, an island in central Paris. But it would not be long before their first expulsion in 629. The Jews would soon return and even receive some legal protections during the reign of Charlemagne in the eighth century. But this too would prove to be short-lived.