Download or read book Florida Hurricane Report Concerning Hurricane Donna written by Florida. Hurricane Damage Study Committee (Created 1960) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Florida Hurricane Report written by Florida. Hurricane Damage Study Committee and published by . This book was released on 1961* with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Diagnostic Report of the National Hurricane Center written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Florida Hurricane Survey Report 1965 written by Florida. Hurricane Damage Study Committee and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lists of Florida Hurricanes written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Florida s Hurricane History written by Jay Barnes and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunshine State has an exceptionally stormy past. Vulnerable to storms that arise in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico, Florida has been hit by far more hurricanes than any other state. In many ways, hurricanes have helped shape Florida's history. Early efforts by the French, Spanish, and English to claim the territory as their own were often thwarted by hurricanes. More recently, storms have affected such massive projects as Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad and efforts to manage water in South Florida. In this book, Jay Barnes offers a fascinating and informative look at Florida's hurricane history. Drawing on meteorological research, news reports, first-person accounts, maps, and historical photographs, he traces all of the notable hurricanes that have affected the state over the last four-and-a-half centuries, from the great storms of the early colonial period to the devastating hurricanes of 2004 and 2005--Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne, Dennis, Katrina, and Wilma. In addition to providing a comprehensive chronology of more than one hundred individual storms, Florida's Hurricane History includes information on the basics of hurricane dynamics, formation, naming, and forecasting. It explores the origins of the U.S. Weather Bureau and government efforts to study and track hurricanes in Florida, home of the National Hurricane Center. But the book does more than examine how hurricanes have shaped Florida's past; it also looks toward the future, discussing the serious threat that hurricanes continue to pose to both lives and property in the state. Filled with more than 200 photographs and maps, the book also features a foreword by Steve Lyons, tropical weather expert for the Weather Channel. It will serve as both an essential reference on hurricanes in Florida and a remarkable source of the stories--of tragedy and destruction, rescue and survival--that foster our fascination with these powerful storms.

Download or read book Florida Hurricane Disaster written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mitigation Assessment Team Report Hurricane Charley in Florida Observations Recommendations and Technical Guidance FEMA 488 written by U. s. Department of Homeland Security and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Charley made landfall on Friday, August 13, 2004, at Mangrove Point, just southwest of Punta Gorda, Florida. On August 19, 2004, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA's) Mitigation Division deployed a Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) to Florida to assess damages caused by Hurricane Charley. This report presents the MAT's observations, conclusions, and recommendations in response to those field investigations. Several maps included in our first chapter illustrate the path of the storm, the wind field estimates, the impact on people and infrastructure, and the depth of storm surge along the path. The width of the high-wind field was very narrow even though hurricane force winds affected some portion of the Florida peninsula from Punta Gorda to Daytona Beach. There was little storm surge or coastal flooding because of the narrow size of the storm and the translational speed with which it came ashore and crossed the state. The hurricane is believed to have been a design wind event (the wind speeds equaled or exceeded those delineated in the current version of the Florida Building Code [FBC]) for a narrow area from the point of landfall on the west coast inland for 120 miles. The design wind speed for Charlotte County (Punta Gorda) per the FBC is 114 to 130 mph (measured as a 3-second peak gust). The actual measured wind speed near Punta Gorda was 112 mph (3-second peak gust) and measured speeds in other parts of the state suggest that Charley was a design wind event. The storm created a very small area affected by storm surge and most damage was not caused by flooding from storm surge, waves, or erosion. Because Hurricane Charley was a design level wind event, the resultant storm damage provides valuable evidence about the effectiveness of building codes and design practices as they ad¬dress design guidelines for high winds. For buildings built prior to the adoption of the current codes, judgments were made about how the observed damage was reflective of the code to which the building was constructed, and the quality of construction or the inspection process that followed construction. Consideration also was given to the type and use of buildings. Many buildings that were expected to function for critical/essential services were severely damaged by the hurricane and lost function for significant periods of time after the event. The recommendations in this report are based solely on the observations and conclusions of the MAT, and are intended to assist the State of Florida, local communities, businesses, and individ¬uals in the reconstruction process and to help reduce damage and impact from future natural events similar to Hurricane Charley. The general recommendations presented in Section 8.1 relate to policies and education/outreach that are needed to ensure that designers, contractors, and building officials understand the requirements for disaster resistance construction in hurricane-prone regions.

Download or read book Florida s Great Hurricane written by Joseph Hugh Reese and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Analysis and Synthesis of Hurricane Wind Patterns Over Lake Okeechobee Florida written by Robert W. Schloemer and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the evolution of meteorological ideas and techniques, which will be combined with oceanographic techniques, to arrive at design values for the levees on the shores of Lake Okeechobee.

Download or read book Diagnostic Report of the National Hurricane Center written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hurricane Loss Study for East Central Florida written by East Central Florida Regional Planning Council and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hurricane Problem in Florida written by Shields E. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Walton County Florida written by United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hurricane and Tropical Cumulus Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Florida Hurricane September 18 1926 written by American National Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1926* with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: