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Author | : Bryan Norcross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2017-05-11 |
Genre | : Disaster relief |
ISBN | : 9780998992211 |
As Category 5 Hurricane Andrew was bearing down, people huddled in their closets and under their mattresses were tuned to "the man who talked South Florida through". This is the story of the storm that set the benchmark for damage - almost four times the previously most expensive U.S. disaster - and the TV coverage that kept people safe and sane through the hellacious night. Bryan Norcross was on the air with life-saving guidance for every minute of Andrew's onslaught. Cities in South Florida declared Bryan Norcross Days in his honor. This is the story behind the acclaimed TV coverage, and why Bryan was first to raise the alarm. Learn untold stories about the storm that rewrote our understanding of hurricanes. How will we deal with extreme storms in the future? Bryan considers the lessons we learned from Andrew, the lessons we should have learned, and what steps we need to immediately take. If you think you know the story of Hurricane Andrew, it is likely you do not. Relive the incredible event from Bryan's vantage point as the man who was connected to South Florida residents through the terror of the storm and the horror of what came after the Great Hurricane of 1992.
Author | : Eugene F. Provenzo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813025667 |
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the worst hurricane in modern Florida's history, this bold, eye-opening portrait of a killer storm tracks Andrew's devastating march across Florida and gauges the storm's impact on the state and its people.
Author | : Andrew Salkey |
Publisher | : Caribbean Modern Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781845231804 |
Part of a series which discusses advances in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting, this volume is the fourth in the series.
Author | : Rick Schwartz |
Publisher | : Blue Diamond Books |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780978628000 |
This reference traces the region's 400-year recorded hurricane history, from Jamestown to the present, drawing on accounts in newspaper articles, books, private journals, and interviews. Emphasizing the human side of a hurricane's aftermath rather than scientific aspects, each hurricane account tells how individuals and communities reacted to the storms. Storms are profiled in year-by-year entries from the 1600's to the current century.
Author | : Judy Andrekson |
Publisher | : Tundra Books |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2010-09-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0887769055 |
Each book in the True Horse Stories focuses on a contemporary horse from a different part of the world, and each animal is, in his or her own way, a hero. PBJ Decks Smokin Gun (Gunner) is an American Paint Horse, one of the many of Heather Lott Goodwin's herd, and a valuable show animal that won the World Championship Paint Horse title. When Hurricane Katrina passed over the Goodwin property, it took with it the fences, the cattle, and several horses. Heather and her family lived in their horse trailer for six weeks and considered themselves lucky to have safe, comfortable shelter. After the storm, they searched for the animals and recovered many of them. But three months passed before they located Gunner, a hundred miles away. They were told he was in terrible shape and should be put down. Nevertheless, Heather drove on washed-out roads to bring him home, starving, dehydrated, and blind in one eye. With the help of a vet and her mother, she nursed him back to health. Amazingly, nine months later, he was well enough to compete again in the World Championship Paint Horse Show. Gunner's story is a testament to love and to determination.
Author | : Andrew Durbin |
Publisher | : Nightboat Books |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1937658708 |
After Hurricane Sandy, Nick Fowler, a writer, stranded alone in a Manhattan apartment without power, begins to contemplate disaster. Months later, at an artist residency in upstate New York, Nick finds his subject in disaster itself and the communities shaped by it, where crisis animates both hope and denial, unacknowledged pasts and potential futures. As he travels to Los Angeles and London on assignment, Nick discovers that outsiders - their lives and histories disturbed by sex, loss, and bad weather - are often better understood by what they have hidden from the world than what they have revealed.
Author | : Post, Cathy Cagle |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2007-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781455606153 |
This narrative re-creates Hurricane Audrey through the eyes of the survivors in a combination of suspense, family drama, and the struggle for life over death. In the midnight hours of June 27, 1957, the hurricane exploded in intensity and speed, slamming into the sleeping coast at dawnï 12 hours ahead of its predicted landfall. Many unsuspecting residents woke that morning to find water already inside their homes. Their ordeal transports the reader back to 1957 with a new appreciation and understanding of how Cameron Parish residents clung to life during the category-four storm.
Author | : Cheryl Ory |
Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2007-02 |
Genre | : Evacuation of civilians |
ISBN | : 1598867520 |
The outside world was misled to believe that all 550 people inside the hospital had been evacuated. No one knew they were there. They could hear the helicopters flying overhead and see the rescue attempts nearby at the Superdome. They shined flashlights out the window at night with the hope that someone would see them. Thirty-something people would gather and hold hands in prayer with the hope of even a word of rescue. They waited and waited. But no one came. They were cut off from the outside world-completely "Disconnected."
Author | : Judy Andrekson |
Publisher | : Tundra Books |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2009-05-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1770490027 |
He was born, wild and free, in the vast mountainous scrublands of Nevada. Until he was a year old, no human hand touched him, though he knew something of the danger people represented to the herd. But one fateful day, the herd was chased by a huge black creature in the sky, and the yearling was separated from his mother. In blind panic he ran, but he could not outdistance the terrifying, whirling thing above him, or the humans on horseback that surrounded him. Before long, JB Andrew would come to the attention of many. He was big, leggy, and awkward, but he had a long, graceful stride and was chosen for an inmate prison program where he would be trained and made ready for adoption. JB, short for Jail Bird, had a special quality that forced people to take notice. Before his retirement years later, he would win hearts and trophies in the elite competitive dressage ring by becoming the first and only wild mustang to attain success in the sport. He paved the way for people to dream, believe, and succeed and in doing so, JB became one of the greatest ambassadors for wild mustangs the breed has ever known. Third in the True Horse Stories series, JB Andrew: Mustang Magic is as warm as it is inspiring.
Author | : Eric Jay Dolin |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1631499068 |
Weaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time and again determined the course of American history, from the nameless storms that threatened the New World voyages to our own era of global warming and megastorms. Along the way, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes, and forces us to reckon with the reality that future storms will likely be worse, unless we reimagine our relationship with the planet.