After the landfall of Hurricane Charley on Florida's southwestern coast, a team of social scientists with IHRC began interviews with storm victims in shelters and on assistance lines in the hardest hit areas.The team was led by Dario Moreno of the Metropolitan Center, along with Betty Morrow, one of the IHRC's first directors and a principal investigator after Hurricane Andrew now working with IHRC as a consultant.

" We know from Hurricane Andrew who we can expect to have the fewest resources and the slowest recovery after a catastrophic event of this kind." says Morrow. "With Hurricane Charley, like so many other disasters, that means significant populations of low-income people, the elderly and agricultural laborers."

More on the research and findings will be available on this site as work proceeds.