Download or read book In the Wake of the Hurricane written by Bob Ogley and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hurricane Wake written by Rosalind Ashe and published by Warner Books (NY). This book was released on 1978-02-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hurricane s Wake written by Ray Franklin Kauffman and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Katrina s Wake written by Donald L. Canney and published by New Perspectives on Maritime H. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tremendous. Canney describes how a service smaller than the New York City police department was able to rise to the occasion with near perfect execution of its missions."---Vincent W. Patton III, Master Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Coast Guard (retired) --
Download or read book Hurricane Wake written by Rosalind Ashe and published by . This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ivan s Wake written by Pensacola News Journal and published by Pediment Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Isaac s Storm written by Erik Larson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-07-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, here is the true story of the deadliest hurricane in history. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.
Download or read book In Katrina s Wake written by Donald L Canney and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2010-08-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the Homeland Security agencies operating in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, no agency performed its duties with the same level of diligence and heroism as did the U.S. Coast Guard. Tirelessly, Coasties in helicopters and small boats pulled survivors from rooftops, floating debris, and high ground and ferried them to safety as the rest of us watched live on CNN. Only a few days later, disaster struck again in the form of Hurricane Rita, which left even more people in desperate need of rescue and assistance. In the aftermath of the storms, some 5,000 Coast Guard personnel rescued 33,735 individuals--six times more than the annual average number rescued by the service nationwide. Then, unobserved by the media, the Coast Guard successfully restored the vital navigation aids in the region, preventing further death and destruction. In Katrina’s Wake presents a riveting account of the astounding operations undertaken by the men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard in the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters ever to strike America. While other government agencies struggled to mobilize and failed to provide real solutions, one small, decentralized agency stepped forward and performed above and beyond the call of duty.
Download or read book In the Wake of the Hurricane written by Bob Ogley and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hurricanes written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Storm World written by Chris Mooney and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into climate change and increasingly dangerous hurricanes from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Republican War on Science. A leading science journalist delves into a red-hot debate in meteorology: whether the increasing ferocity of hurricanes is connected to global warming. In the wake of Katrina, Chris Mooney follows the careers of leading scientists on either side of the argument through the 2006 hurricane season, tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weather itself have skewed and amplified what was already a fraught scientific debate. As Mooney puts it: “Scientists, like hurricanes, do extraordinary things at high wind speeds.” Mooney—a New Orleans native, host of the Point of Inquiry podcast, and author of The Republican Brain—has written “a well-researched, nuanced book” that closely examines whether we as a society should be held responsible for making hurricanes even bigger monsters than they already are (The New York Times). “Mooney serves his readers as both an empiricist who gathers data and an analyst who puts it into context. The result is an important book, whose author succeeds admirably in both his roles.” —The Plain Dealer “Engaging and readable . . . Mooney catches real science in the act and, in so doing, weaves a story as intriguing as it is important.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Mooney has hit upon an important and controversial topic, and attacks it with vigor.” —The Boston Globe “An absorbing, informed account of the politics behind a pressing contemporary controversy.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book From a Storm to a Hurricane written by Anthony Hogan and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete inside story of one of the biggest bands of the Merseybeat era.
Download or read book Hurricane s Wake Around the World in a Ketch Illustrated written by Ray KAUFFMAN and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hurricane Destruction in South Carolina written by Tom Rubillo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late September 1989, South Carolina was rocked by the colossal force of Hurricane Hugo. A category four hurricane, Hugo devastated the coast and other regions of the state, claiming dozens of lives and causing billions of dollars in damage. Hugo was the Palmetto States most destructive natural disaster in recent memory, but the story of that storm is only part of the larger history of hurricanes in South Carolina. A History of Hurricane Destruction in South Carolina: Hell and High Water examines more than thirty major hurricanes that have struck the state since the 1800s, offering a revealing look at the destruction and loss that results from these violent manifestations of natures power. Author Tom Rubillo brings to bear a breadth of research and incorporates first-person accounts of the storms and the struggle of survivors forced to rebuild in the wake of tremendous losses. Hell and High Water is at once a history of the damage wrought by the fury of hurricanes and a reminder that the next great storm could be no more than a season away.
Download or read book Lowcountry Hurricanes written by Walter J. Fraser, Jr. and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once sobering and thrilling, this illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard. A prime target for the fierce storms that develop in the Atlantic, the region is especially vulnerable because of its shallow, gradually sloping sea floor and low-lying coastline. With an eye on both natural and built environments, Fraser's narrative ranges from the first documented storm in 1686 to recent times in describing how the lowcountry has endured some of the severest effects of wind and water. This chronology of the most notable lowcountry storms is also a useful primer on the basics of hurricane dynamics. Fraser tells how the 800-ton Rising Sun foundered in open water near Charles Town during the hurricane of 1700. About one hundred persons were aboard. All perished. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, he describes the storm surge of an 1804 hurricane that submerged most of Tybee Island and swept over the fort on nearby Cockspur Island, drowning soldiers and civilians. Readers may have their own memories of Hurricanes Andrew, Opal, and Hugo. Although hurricanes frequently lead to significant loss of life, Fraser recounts numerous gripping instances of survival and rescue at sea and ashore. The author smoothly weaves the lowcountry's long social, political, and economic history with firsthand reports and data accumulated by the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Generously illustrated with contemporary and historical photographs, this is a readable and informative resource on one of nature's most awesome forces.
Download or read book Katrina s Wake written by Douglas Lee and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TIMED FOR THE FIFTEENTH COMMEMORATION of Hurricane Katrina's dreadful epic of destruction and loss, suffering and death, KATRINA'S WAKE: Journeys on a Hurricane Coast takes the reader along with lifelong journalist and nature writer Doug Lee, also a photographer and expatriate native son of the Central Gulf Coast, on a post-storm pilgrimage to a part of the world he has known well and loved deeply all his life. There he searches out what tattered remnants can still be found of an older way of life, conducted over extensive travels to New Orleans and surrounding areas of Louisiana and Mississippi in the critical years of 2006 to 2009, when the region's comeback was just beginning, whole neighborhoods of New Orleans remained all but abandoned, and the storm's debris and wreckage still littered the landscape. Katrina's Wake is a window into that tenuous period when come-backs were in question, and, further, an in-depth exploration of the Gulf Coast with an eye to the much longer view, evaluating the role that Louisiana's disappearing coastal wetlands have historically played in mitigating hurricanes' damage to New Orleans, and how they can be restored to significant portions of their former area, presently about 4,000 square miles of marshes, bayous and swamps. That's decreased by a third from its original natural extent since whole-scale levee-building along the Mississippi River undertaken nearly a century ago cut off their main source of fresh water and sediments borne by the Big Muddy's annual floods, and as you read this, they're still eroding at the rate of a football field's worth of invaluable wetlands every hour and a half, round the clock, every day of the year. Lee reports on the steps that can and must be taken to restore these protective and incredibly fertile wetlands, home at some point in their life cycles to every commercial species of fish, shrimp or crustacean that swims in the Gulf of Mexico. Equally critical, they constitute a protective bulwark for South Louisiana's towns and cities, most notably New Orleans, by lowering a hurricane's storm surge a foot for every three miles of wetlands it covers as it plows inland. This phenomenon has become well-known in South Louisiana as providing 'Speed Bumps for Hurricanes', a phrase that's become a rallying cry for restoring the coastal marshes through major engineering projects channeling the Mississippi's overflows into strategically critical areas of damaged or destroyed wetlands..These and a great many other aspects of the storm and its aftermath are explored in this book, as well as the region's long-term prospects, resting on a foundation of extensive reportage by the author for articles published in National Geographic in the 1980s and '90s, when he was a senior staff writer and editor in the magazine's Science Department. Those early travels and the more recent journeys he undertook from 2006 into 2009 to research and write Katrina's Wake have given him a knowledge and intimacy with the quirky life and colorful history of settlements and their vividly individualistic inhabitants who have resided beside the river south of New Orleans in the Mississippi River Delta, all but forgotten by modern readers or lovers of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast's history. Traveling with him, we meet a vivid cast of swamp frontiersmen born a century late, fierce and determined urban survivors, and embattled oystermen, fishermen and and shrimpers, academics and scientists all united in one thing: their love and grief for this coast's many indelible cultures and its wounded natural inheritance, whose future lies now in our hands, and their determination and dedication to revivifying the life abundant they once knew so well.Lee's fascination with this region is both professional and personal, as he spent most summers of his pre-teen and teen years driving tractors and milking cows, barefoot in his Uncle Frank's dairy barn on the family's Mississippi Coast farm.
Download or read book Engineering Solutions for Hurricanes written by Jeri Freedman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricanes are increasing in frequency and intensity, bringing massive destruction in their wake. This resource provides readers with insight into the nature of hurricanes and the solutions engineers are using to prepare for hurricanes and protect people and property when they occur. It explains the technological tools such as NASA satellites, computer modeling, and aircraft and field missions that scientists and engineers are using to predict when and where hurricanes will occur. It also describes how engineers are creating improved building codes and innovative structures and redesigning cities to withstand hurricanes' violence and save lives when disaster strikes.
