When Helene disconnected my part of North Carolina for weeks, my neighbors and I had to relearn old ways of knowing what was happening — and what wasn’t.

In one worst-case scenario, New Orleans could receive up to 10 inches of rain by the end of the weekend.

Chantal has already started weakening as it moves inland, but forecasters said flash floods and life-threatening rip currents were expected along the coast.

The island confirmed its first death amid a surge of water, damaging winds and flooding. The storm is barreling toward the Cayman Islands and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.

Forging a sustainable postdisaster future requires a reckoning with the entrenched systems of inequality that set the stage for the tragedy to begin with.