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Barry, John M. Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America An account of the 1927 Mississippi River flood explores one of the greatest national disasters the United States has ever experienced and its consequences in a comprehensive volume that clearly shows how the flood changed the course of history. 1997 | ||||
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Brinkley, Douglas The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast An eye-opening, deeply personal account of hurricane Katrina and the devastation it left in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast documents the events and repercussions of the tragedy and its aftermath, the historical roots of the terrible storm, and the ongoing crisis confronting the region. 2006 Appears on the following book lists:
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Brown, Daniel Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 Describes the devastating events of September 1894, when two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, and surrounding communities, trapping more than two thousand people when it engulfed the region, offering a dramatic re-creation of the catastrophe, which cost more than four hundred lives. 2006 Appears on the following book lists:  Minnesota Experience | ||||
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Bruce, Victoria No Apparent Danger: The True Story of Volcanic Disaster at Galeras and Nevado Del Ruiz The riveting true tale of rescue in the face of extreme natural disaster follows two geologists into the hot crater of a Columbian volcano to save several colleagues trapped by an eruption. 2001 | ||||
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Burns, Cherie The Great Hurricane: 1938 The author introduces readers to one of the worst natural disasters in the nation's history--the 1938 Hurricane that struck the coast of New England at 186 miles per hour causing devastation throughout the region--and the personal stories of survivors of the catastrophe. 2005 | ||||
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Drye, Willie Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 A gripping chronicle of the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the United States and its devastating aftermath details the fiercest storm of September 1935 from the perspectives of survivors of the storm, Federal Emergency Relief Administration employees, and government officials. 2002 | ||||
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Dyson, Michael Eric Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster Discusses how the federal government's failed relief efforts in New Orleans were dictated by issues of race and class, compounded by a lack of leadership and the manipulations of large business interests willing to profit from the disaster. 2006 | ||||
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Egan, Timothy The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Presents an oral history of the dust storms that devastated the Great Plains during the Depression, following several families and their communities in their struggle to persevere despite the devastation. 2006 Appears on the following book lists: National Book Awards
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Gess, Denise Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History Re-creates the events of the most devastating fire in American history, documenting the conflagration that swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin, on October 8, 1871--the same night as the Great Chicago Fire--incinerating more than 2,400 square miles of land, obliterating Peshtigo, and killing more than two thousand people. 2002 | ||||
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Hull, William H. All Hell Broke Loose Experiences of young people in Minnesota during the 1940 Armistice Day blizzard. 1985 Appears on the following book lists: Minnesota Experience | ||||
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Jenkins, McKay The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone Tells the story of five young men who were killed by an avalanche while trying to climb Mount Cleveland, and discusses the history of avalanches 2000 | ||||
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Krauss, Erich Wave of Destruction: The Stories of Four Families and History's Deadliest Tsunami Four Southeast Asia tsunami survival stories offer insight into the experiences of people who heroically endured devastating odds in their determination to stay alive, recounting their painful losses of families, friends, and homes and their subsequent efforts to rebuild. 2006 | ||||
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Krist, Gary The White Cascade : the Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit Washington State. High in the Cascade Mountains near the tiny town of Wellington, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars buried in rising drifts, parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. An army of the Great Northern Railroad's men worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains, but the storm was unrelenting. Suddenly the earth shifted and a colossal avalanche tumbled, sweeping the trains and their sleeping passengers over the steep slope and down the mountainside. 2007 | ||||
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Kurzman, Dan Disaster!: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 Investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, describing the horrible natural disaster and the subsequent fire that raged through the rubble, killing ten thousand people. 2001 | ||||
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Larson, Erik Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History Provides an in-depth chronicle of America's deadliest hurricane, which struck the city of Galveston, Texas, in 1900 and killed some ten thousand people, drawing on eyewitness accounts of the catastrophe and the writings of one of America's earliest professional weathermen, Isaac Cline. 1999 | ||||
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Laskin, David The Children's Blizzard Describes the deadly 1888 snowstorm in the Great Plains that killed more than five hundred people including numerous schoolchildren, describing how the storm devastated immigrant families and dramatically affected pioneer advancement. 2004 Appears on the following book lists: History | ||||
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Levine, Mark F5: Devastation Survival and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century Focuses on the Limestone County, Alabama, lives altered and lost in April 1974, when more than one hundred tornadoes--six of them of the most powerful "F5" category of storms--swept across thirteen states, killing and wounding hundreds of people and causing billions of dollars worth of damage. 2007 | ||||
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Mathis, Nancy Storm Warning : the Story of a Killer Tornado May 3, 1999, is a day that Oklahomans will never forget. By the time the sun set over a ravaged plain, some 71 tornadoes had claimed 11,000 homes and businesses and caused a billion dollars in damages. One of them was a mile-wide monster of incredible power, the fiercest F5 twister to hit a metropolitan area, and whose 300 mph winds were the fastest ever recorded on the planet. Veteran journalist Nancy Mathis draws on numerous interviews to weave the story of those few terrifying hours that irrevocably changed the lives of many Oklahomans. 2007 | ||||
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McCullough, David G. The Johnstown Flood A graphic account of the collapse of a poorly constructed dam and the resulting flood in 1889 which killed 2,000 people and caused a nationwide scandal. 1987 | ||||
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O'Hanlon, Redmond Trawler Having survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo, Redmond O’Hanlon now ventures into his own perfect storm in the wildest waters he could find. His rendezvous with destiny begins aboard a trawler converted for deep-sea fishing at a cost of $3 million–which is why its young skipper’s setting out from Scotland’s northern tip when the rest of the fleet is running for safe harbor. Equipped with a fancy Nikon, an excessive supply of socks and no seamanship whatsoever, O’Hanlon joins a crew of five who stock a bottomless hull with the catch, day after sleepless day, even as the hurricane threatens to wash them overboard. While he helps inventory the creatures of the deepest North Atlantic–from jellycats to the wormlike hagfish, unchanged since its evolution more than 500 million years ago–his shipmates exchange manic monologues that range from their woeful longing for loyal women to trade laws and complex fishing quotas. 2005 | ||||
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