![]() ![]() This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.Įnayat Asadi is a photojournalist in Iran. Marzieh, who was 8 months pregnant in this photo, told the photographer she felt nauseous from her pregnancy but still did farm work while her husband worked in the city. They'll use it as fodder for their livestock in the coming winter months. For those who continue - the numbers are diminishing - they persist to maintain identity."Įnayat Asadi for NPR From the right: 22-year-old Marzieh, 25-year-old Golgol and 60-year-old Sangi Jan harvest barley from their field. "If they don't live this way, they don't exist any more. "Their habits, way of dressing and lifestyle are still maintained," he says. ![]() There's even a National Football League player with Bakhtiari roots: David Bakhtiari of the Green Bay Packers.Īnd yet, some tribes of Bakhtiari continue to raise animals, grow barley and migrate between pastures with the seasons, just as they have for generations, explains Alam Saleh, of the Australian National University's Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies. ![]() Many vaulted into the Iranian elite, becoming academics, actors, ambassadors and athletes. Urbanization began to take hold in this region a century ago, and over the years, the majority of the Bakhtiari have assimilated. She says she does not like the nomadic way of life but feels she has no choice but to accept and endure it. They travel many hours on rough paths throughout the year, from pasture to pasture - and then there's the yearly 10-hour journey from their summer home to their winter home. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.Enayat Asadi for NPR Fereshteh, 14, is photographed in the central Zagros mountains, where her tribe spends spring and summer. ![]() We'll have more coverage of Hurricane Ian elsewhere in the program. SUMMERS: That's Chelsea Rivera, a student in southwest Florida. So that's kind of been the only reminder. It's just, you know, trees are down everywhere. It doesn't really look like there was a hurricane. RIVERA: It's actually pretty beautiful out, surprisingly. SUMMERS: But right now in Sarasota, the storm has passed. Those areas saw massive flooding and storm surge. I'm just afraid it's completely underwater.ĬHANG: Now, the center of the storm hit about 50 miles south of Sarasota, close to Fort Myers and Cape Coral. And there's probably - I have no access to that, to my apartment, at least for a while now. But we're actually on an island, so I can assume that that entire island is underwater right now. We're on the third floor, so I don't think our apartment was hit by flooding. Petersburg, that may be a different story. SUMMERS: Damage might not be that bad in her parents' neighborhood in Sarasota, which was not in an evacuation zone, but where she lives in St. The house across the street, their palm tree is completely destroyed. But luckily, my entire neighborhood - yeah, there were trees down. It actually took out half of our fence and then also, I think, the fence of our neighbor as well. RIVERA: I was a little bit nervous to go outside just to see how bad the damage was. So I was relieved that the storm was gone, was my first thought. SUMMERS: She eventually did get some sleep. Npr hourly news update windows#So we were very scared that, you know, the glass was going to break in our house, you know, on the windows that weren't boarded up. And every time the wind blew, you could just feel the house shaking. And it kind of kept me up last night, to be quite honest. I was up - probably up until, like, 1 o'clock in the morning. The winds were crazy, sounded like a freight train. RIVERA: I want to say it was dinner time. But the hurricane was not done with southwest Florida yet. RIVERA: Rain is pelting, you know, the windows.ĬHANG: Last night, I spoke to her just hours after the eye of the hurricane had made landfall. It's - like you said, it's going 150 miles an hour. Hurricane Ian actually landed more south, meaning that Chelsea Rivera's evacuation plan actually brought her closer to the storm's center and its Category 4 winds.ĬHELSEA RIVERA: I see palm trees swaying back and forth. So she went south to shelter with her parents in Sarasota. At one point, Hurricane Ian was feared to directly hit the Tampa Bay region, where Chelsea Rivera is a Ph.D. ![]()
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