Great
Storms of the Jersey Shore
by Larry Savadove, Margaret Thomas Buchholz
(Hardcover -- July 1, 1993)
Florida
Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871-2001
by John M. Williams, Iver W. Duedall
(Paperback -- June 2002)
Florida's
Hurricane History
by Jay Barnes, Neil Frank (Introduction)
Paperback - 344 pages (October 1998)
Univ of North Carolina Pr; ISBN: 0807847488
North
Carolina's Hurricane History
by Jay Barnes
(Paperback -- June 2001)
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Galveston
and the 1900 Storm
by Patricia Bellis Bixel, et al
Paperback: 190 pages
Univ of Texas Pr; ISBN: 029270884X; (August 2000)
The
Great Galveston Disaster : Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the
Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times
by Paul Lester
(Paperback -- March 2000)
Do
Tornadoes Really Twist? : Questions and Answers About Tornadoes and Hurricanes
(Scholastic Q & A)
by Melvin Berger, et al
(Paperback -- November 2000)
Lunatic
Wind : Surviving the Storm of the Century
by William Price Fox
(Hardcover -- September 1992)
Hurricanes
(Nature on the Rampage)
by Christy Steele
(Library Binding -- June 2000)
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Isaac's
Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by Erik Larson, Isaac Monroe Cline
On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas.
A tidal surge of some four feet in as many seconds inundated the city,
while the wind destroyed thousands of buildings. By the time the water
and winds subsided, entire streets had disappeared and as many as 10,000
were dead--making this the worst natural disaster in America's history.
In Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson blends science and history to tell the story
of Galveston, its people, and the hurricane that devastated them. Drawing
on hundreds of personal reminiscences of the storm, Larson follows individuals
through the fateful day and the storm's aftermath. There's Louisa Rollfing,
who begged her husband, August, not to go into town the morning of the
storm; the Ursuline Sisters at St. Mary's orphanage who tied their charges
to lengths of clothesline to keep them together; Judson Palmer, who huddled
in his bathroom with his family and neighbors, hoping to ride out the storm.
At the center of it all is Isaac Cline, employee of the nascent Weather
Bureau, and his younger brother - and rival weatherman - Joseph. Larson
does an excellent job of piecing together Isaac's life and reveals that
Isaac was not the quick-thinking hero he claimed to be after the storm
ended. The storm itself, however, is the book's true protagonist--and Larson
describes its nuances in horrific detail. At times the prose is a bit too
purple, but Larson is engaging and keeps the book's tempo rising in pace
with the wind and waves. Overall, Isaac's Storm recaptures at a time when,
standing in the first year of the century, Americans felt like they ruled
the world--and that even the weather was no real threat to their supremacy.
Nature proved them wrong. --Sunny Delaney - Amazon.com
Paperback: 323 pages
Vintage Books; ISBN: 0375708278; (July 11, 2000)
Twisters!
by Lucille Recht Penner, Kazushige Nitta (Illustrator)
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