Inside Hurricanes

Author : Eleonora Rohland
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785339325

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Changes in the Air by Eleonora Rohland Pdf

Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans. Since before its settlement as a French colony in the eighteenth century, the land entwined between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River has been lashed by powerful Gulf storms. Time and again, these hurricanes have wrought immeasurable loss and devastation, spurring reinvention and ingenuity on the part of inhabitants. Changes in the Air offers a rich and thoroughly researched history of how hurricanes have shaped and reshaped New Orleans from the colonial era to the present day, focusing on how its residents have adapted to a uniquely unpredictable and destructive environment across more than three centuries.

Author : Philip Steele,Neil Morris
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836872495

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Inside Hurricanes and Tornadoes by Philip Steele,Neil Morris Pdf

Explains what hurricanes and tornadoes are, describes the damage these powerful storms can do, and explains how scientists study the weather to predict such storms.

Author : Pete Davies
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 080506611X

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Inside the Hurricane by Pete Davies Pdf

In Inside the Hurricane, Pete Davies sweeps readers from the Caribbean to the Bay of Bengal, describing both the horrifying violence and the eerie beauty of hurricanes. He explains the weather conditions that foster them; discusses in lucid detail how scientists predict, measure, and track them; and delves into mysteries scientists are still trying to solve. From apocalyptic devastation in Central America to a frantic race against time in Miami, Pete Davies take you as close to the storm as it's possible to go. He tracks the greatest hurricanes in history and takes you along for a wild ride as he recounts his experiences following and flying directly into the worst storms of 1999 with the scientists who do it for living; he explores the science of why hurricanes occur and how to predict their onslaughts more accurately; and he describes the mounting panic of those frantically making preparations as 1999's biggest storm, Floyd, looms. A winning combination of history, science, and adventure, Inside the Hurricane leaves readers with a chilling reminder of nature's enduring domination over man. Going face to face with nature at its most violent, Inside the Hurricane is a gripping, frightening, and brilliantly instructive book about the deadliest storms known to man.

Author : Mary Kay Carson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Hurricanes
ISBN : 1402777809

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Inside Hurricanes by Mary Kay Carson Pdf

An introduction to why hurricanes occur and what it's like to live through one.

Author : Julie Angus
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781926812250

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Rowboat in a Hurricane by Julie Angus Pdf

An intrepid scientist and her fiancé—National Geographic's 2007 Adventurers of the Year—observe the changing ocean while rowing across the Atlantic. In 2005-06, Julie Angus and her fiancé Colin rowed 10,000 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean—from Lisbon to Costa Rica—making Angus the first woman in the world to travel from mainland to mainland in a rowboat. The 145-day journey gave Angus, a trained biologist, a unique perspective on the ocean. The slow-moving boat became an ecosystem unto itself, attracting barnacles, dorado fish, trigger fish, turtles, sharks, whales, birds, and more, which she was able to observe and document. Angus also saw unmistakable signs of the ocean’s devastation, with far more plastic bottles, wrappers, toys, and bags than sharks or other once-common sea life. Four cyclones, including two hurricanes, hammered the small boat so intensely that Angus and her companion weren't sure they would survive. Rowboat in a Hurricane records this amazing journey in meticulous, dramatic detail, in the process offering a personal record of an awe-inspiring ecosystem, its fascinating denizens, and the mounting threats to its existence.

Author : Denise Hildreth
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781414338354

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Hurricanes in Paradise by Denise Hildreth Pdf

From the moment Riley Sinclair stepped onto Paradise Island, Bahamas, and into her new job as director of guest relations at a five-star resort, she felt the pieces of her once-broken life finally coming together. But the waters become choppy when Riley discovers that some who come to the Atlantis hotel arrive with more than just suitcases and suntan lotion in tow. They're accompanied by their lurking demons, paralyzing secrets, and overwhelming fears. Riley and three women guests are in desperate but unknowing need of each other, eventually forging unlikely yet powerful friendships. With a hurricane headed straight for the island, together they embark on a journey of laughter and lunacy, heartache and healing.

Author : Donald L Canney
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813047089

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In Katrina's Wake by Donald L Canney Pdf

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.

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375708275

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Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson Pdf

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.

Author : Matthew Mulcahy
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801898976

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Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783 by Matthew Mulcahy Pdf

Hurricanes created unique challenges for the colonists in the British Greater Caribbean during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These storms were entirely new to European settlers and quickly became the most feared part of their physical environment, destroying staple crops and provisions, leveling plantations and towns, disrupting shipping and trade, and resulting in major economic losses for planters and widespread privation for slaves. In this study, Matthew Mulcahy examines how colonists made sense of hurricanes, how they recovered from them, and the role of the storms in shaping the development of the region's colonial settlements. Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783 provides a useful new perspective on several topics including colonial science, the plantation economy, slavery, and public and private charity. By integrating the West Indies into the larger story of British Atlantic colonization, Mulcahy's work contributes to early American history, Atlantic history, environmental history, and the growing field of disaster studies.

Author : Fernanda Melchor
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228046

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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor Pdf

The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers Winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute's Tanslation Prize Longlisted for the National Book Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis New York Public Library Best Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters—inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable—forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666 or Faulkner’s novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.

Author : United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : UIUC:30112101032180

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Characteristics of United States Hurricanes Pertinent to Levee Design for Lake Okeechobee, Florida by United States. Weather Bureau Pdf

Author : Bernice Ackerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Hurricanes
ISBN : UCR:31210025053008

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The Distribution of Liquid Water in Hurricanes by Bernice Ackerman Pdf

Author : Wayne Neely
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1440151768

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The Great Bahamian Hurricanes Of 1926 by Wayne Neely Pdf

Every year, hurricanes seem to be increasingly severe and unpredictable, ensuring that they remain one of the most frequent topics of conversation in our everyday lives. The Great Bahamian Hurricanes of 1926 provides the perfect introduction to the complexities and dynamics of hurricanes. It focuses on how they develop, what causes them to be so powerful, the history behind them and how hurricanes affect us all. Wayne Neely tells the story of three of the worst natural catastrophes in the history of the Bahamas. However, this is not just the story of three big storms, but also of the many Bahamians who had to endure them. The individual stories of heroism and cowardice; tragedy and redemption vividly bring these storms to life. Each hurricane season brings with it a reminder that we are constantly subject to natural occurrences over which we have no control. Through unique historical photographs of actual damages from these three storms, this book shows the widespread devastation that these storms inflicted on the Bahamas. Drawing upon many newspaper accounts, ship reports and Family Island Commissioners reports from throughout the Bahamas, the author provides a fascinating glimpse of these hurricanes as they devastated the Bahamas.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : PSU:000065516799

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The Hurricanes in Haiti by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Pdf

Author : Adrian Stewart
Publisher : Pen and Sword Aviation
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526788696

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Hurricanes in Action Worldwide! by Adrian Stewart Pdf

The Hawker Hurricane was the RAF’s most valuable fighter asset in the Second World War, yet even today is relatively under-appreciated by the general public. Yet from the early months of the war it was the single engine fighter most often encountered by the Luftwaffe and during the Battle of Britain it made 80% of the successful interdictions of enemy formations. As this superbly researched book written by a leading authority on the air war reveals, this was only the start of the Hurricane’s war service. Its reliability and versatility ensured that variants saw action in more war theaters worldwide than any other fighter. Indeed, as the RAF’s Official History recalls ‘Everywhere the Ubiquitous Hurricane was to be seen’. This book follows the ‘Hurri’ to Russia, Malta, North Africa and as far afield as Burma, Sumatra and Java. Seaborne versions fought in the Battle of the Atlantic and defended the Mediterranean convoys. In the ground attack role Hurricane fighter bombers made countless sweeps over occupied Europe. Pilots’ first-hand accounts supplement the text. Readers are left in no doubt as to the massive contribution that the Hurricane made to ultimate victory.