Forensic anthropologist Ann Ross is worried about her freezer full of pig parts if Hurricane Florence cuts the power to her lab at North Carolina State University. “Oh my god, the smell… they will decompose, and it’s going to be a disgusting, soupy decomposition,” says Ross, who uses the pig pieces to investigate the marks that violence leaves on human bones. “That’s going to be horrible.”
Hurricane Florence is a Category 2 storm that’s on track to pummel the Carolinas and Mid-Atlantic region. It’s expected to bring life-threatening storm surges of up to 13 feet, dangerous winds, and what the National Hurricane Center calls “catastrophic flash flooding.”
That’s forced some researchers in the area to…
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