Excerpt from | Oral History Interview with Billy Ray Hall, January 20, 2000. Interview K-0509. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) |
Hall discusses his goals for future development in North Carolina that will help prevent or minimize the kind of devastation that Hurricane Floyd caused. He advocates diversifying agriculture, creating a modest manufacturing base, and building intelligently on or near flood plains. Hall explains that flood plain building costs the state money when it has to buy land from private citizens to compensate them for their losses.