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Deadly Storms of the Delmarva Coast
9781625859389
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Journey to the coast with Michael Morgan as he looks back at the area's most deadly storms.
Coastal Delaware, Maryland and Virginia have always been vulnerable to the power of storms. In the early nineteenth century, storm-driven shipwrecks led to the construction of the Delaware breakwater. In 1933, a storm created an inlet on the south edge of Ocean City and changed the character of the Maryland resort. The Ash Wednesday nor'easter of 1962 devastated oceanfront communities, led to the creation of beach replenishment projects that pushed the ocean back from the new multimillion-dollar buildings that sat on the sand and spurred the creation of Assateague Island National Seashore. Michael Morgan narrates the stories of these storms and reminds us of the power of wind and water.
Tippecanoe County and the 1913 Flood
9781467147583
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%These untold stories and never-before-seen images explore the human drama of the 1913 Flood as it unfolded in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
Heralding the coming spring, the weather forecast promised a warm and sunny Easter in 1913. Little did the citizens of Tippecanoe County realize that a furious deluge would cause the Wabash River to swell to an ungovernable and lethal height. Bridges collapsed, whole buildings came unmoored from their foundations and washed away, and heroic rescue attempts saved lives and cost others.
Authors and retired Purdue professors Pete Bill and Arnold Sweet describe the travails of communities suddenly cut off from the rest of the world and facing a natural disaster that gripped twenty states.
Island in the Storm
9781596291430
Regular price $14.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Island in the Storm, by local historians Jamie and Dorothy Moore, documents in vivid detail the devastation, loss and eventual rebuilding of this beloved island community.
On the night of September 21, 1989, Hurricane Hugo slammed into the South Carolina coast at Sullivan's Island with winds exceeding 160 miles per hour. The colossal force of the hurricane was punctuated by storm surges ranging from five to ten feet above sea level. At approximately one minute after midnight, Hugo's eye passed over the island, and the charming community seaside community disappeared beneath the tumultuous sea for nearly an hour. After Hugo left Sullivan's Island in its furious wake, the first news broadcasts from the Charleston area reported that the island and neighboring Isle of Palms were completely destroyed. The Ben Sawyer Bridge--the only connection to the island at the time--was knocked off its pedestal and rendered useless, and so the hundreds of families who had evacuated the area could not return to their homes to see what, if anything, remained. The recovery process started slowly, and for many it would be a long, arduous journey. More than 15 years later, Sullivan's Island's homes and businesses have been restored, but the memory of Hugo's fury will not soon be forgotten.
A History of Alabama's Deadliest Tornadoes
9781596299115
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Wreck of the Old 97
9781596298767
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%With Fast Mail train No. 97 an hour behind schedule, locomotive engineer Steve Broady, according to legend, swore to "put her in Spencer on time" or "put her in Hell."
Through eyewitness reports and court testimonies, historian Larry Aaron expertly pieces together the events of September 27, 1903, at Danville, Virginia, when the Old 97 plummeted off a forty-five-foot trestle into the ravine below. With more twists and turns than the railroad tracks on which the Old 97 ran, this book chronicles the story of one of the most famous train wrecks in American history, as well as the controversy surrounding "The Wreck of the Old 97," that most famous ballad, which secured the Old 97 a place within the annals of American folklore.
The 1924 Tornado in Lorain & Sandusky: Deadliest in Ohio History
9781626196360
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The 1935 Republican River Flood
9781626198555
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9781609491161
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Memphis and the Superflood of 1937
9781596295308
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Experience the historic superflood that decimated the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys and the resilience displayed by the people of Memphis.
The greatest flood in United States history struck the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys in January 1937. Perhaps no single flood in the United States had caused as much damage, displayed as much brutal natural force and displaced as many people. Not even the calamitous flood of 1927, which has eclipsed the '37 flood in terms of historical coverage was as massive. Author and Memphis local Patrick O'Daniel illustrates how this national natural disaster affected Memphis, in particular, and how the politicians of the day, from national figures like FDR to local political bosses like Ed Crump, handled unprecedented infrastructural challenges. Yet beyond politics and policy, O'Daniel tells the story of this historic disaster through the eyes of everyday Memphians, their struggles, care for thousands of desperate refugees and the measures they took to save their city from this devastating flood.
The Great Hurricanes of North Carolina
9781596293915
Regular price $14.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Great Cumberland Floods: Disaster in the Queen City
9781596296886
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Pendleton Disaster off Cape Cod
9781609490508
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Get a first-hand account and fascinating new details of the story behind The Finest Hours, the film portraying the harrowing rescue of the SS Pendleton in 1952.
On February 18, 1952, off the coast of Cape Cod, a fierce nor'easter snapped in half two 503-foot oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer. Human grace and grit, leadership and endurance prevail as Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret.) recount the historic, heroic rescue of thirty-two merchant mariners from the sinking Pendleton by four young Coast Guardsmen aboard the 36-foot motor lifeboat CG36500. A foreword by former Commandant Admiral Thad Allen (Ret.) and an essay by Master Chief John ""Jack"" Downey (Ret.), a veteran of thousands of modern-day small boat rescues, round out the special third edition of this classic work on Coast Guard history.
Columbus and the Great Flood of 1913:
9781626190610
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Cedar Keys Hurricane of 1896
9781596296121
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Families watched in horror as walls of water swept away homes and businesses, and men held onto saplings for their lives while the winds howled.
The destruction was beyond belief. Buildings on Atsena Otie were swept away so completely that only cracked stone foundations remained, and the forests of red cedar that gave the islands their name and livelihood were flattened. Resulting in dozens of deaths and millions of dollars in damage, Hurricane Number 4 in 1896 changed the Cedar Keys forever and set the city on a path to the present. Historian Alvin F. Oickle, drawing on firsthand accounts and extensive archival research, tells the story of ordinary Floridians who were faced, like so many before and so many since, with nature's fury.
Disaster on the Potomac
9781596298132
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Explosion on the Potomac
9781626191976
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