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In The Wake Of The Hurricane

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Author : Bob Ogley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987-01-01

In The Wake Of The Hurricane written by Bob Ogley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Kent (England) categories.

In Katrina S Wake

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Author : Donald L Canney
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2010-08-29

In Katrina S Wake written by Donald L Canney and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-29 with Social Science categories.

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.

Hurricane Wake

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Author : Rosalind Ashe
language : en
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Release Date : 1977-01-01

Hurricane Wake written by Rosalind Ashe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-01-01 with English fiction categories.

The Great Bahamas Hurricane Of 1929

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Author : Wayne Neely
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2013-12

The Great Bahamas Hurricane Of 1929 written by Wayne Neely and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12 with History categories.

The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1929, also known as the Great Andros Island Hurricane of 1929, was the only major hurricane during the very inactive 1929 North Atlantic hurricane season. The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1929 was perhaps one of the greatest and deadliest hurricanes to impact the Bahamas and is often regarded as the greatest Bahamian hurricane of the twentieth century. It was the only storm on record to last for three consecutive days over the Bahamas, with pounding torrential rainfall and strong, gusty winds. The storm killed 134 persons in the Bahamas, mostly mariners and sponge fishermen, as it directly hit the islands of Nassau and Andros. This thoroughly researched history considers this intense storm and its aftermath, offering an exploration of an important historical weather event that has been neglected in previous study. Also included is a harrowing account of a dog called Speak Your Mind who rescued a sponge fisherman at sea. Through unique historical photographs of actual damage, author and veteran meteorologist Wayne Neely shows the widespread devastation left in the wake of this tremendous storm. Drawing upon many newspaper accounts, ship reports, and Family Island Commissioners reports from throughout the Bahamas, the author provides a fascinating glimpse of this hurricane and the devastation it caused the Bahamas.

Storm World

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Author : Chris Mooney
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2008-08-04

Storm World written by Chris Mooney and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-04 with Science categories.

An investigation into climate change and increasingly dangerous hurricanes from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Republican War on Science. A leading science journalist delves into a red-hot debate in meteorology: whether the increasing ferocity of hurricanes is connected to global warming. In the wake of Katrina, Chris Mooney follows the careers of leading scientists on either side of the argument through the 2006 hurricane season, tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weather itself have skewed and amplified what was already a fraught scientific debate. As Mooney puts it: “Scientists, like hurricanes, do extraordinary things at high wind speeds.” Mooney—a New Orleans native, host of the Point of Inquiry podcast, and author of The Republican Brain—has written “a well-researched, nuanced book” that closely examines whether we as a society should be held responsible for making hurricanes even bigger monsters than they already are (The New York Times). “Mooney serves his readers as both an empiricist who gathers data and an analyst who puts it into context. The result is an important book, whose author succeeds admirably in both his roles.” —The Plain Dealer “Engaging and readable . . . Mooney catches real science in the act and, in so doing, weaves a story as intriguing as it is important.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Mooney has hit upon an important and controversial topic, and attacks it with vigor.” —The Boston Globe “An absorbing, informed account of the politics behind a pressing contemporary controversy.” —Kirkus Reviews

The Gift Of Hope

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Author : Ellyn Sanna
language : en
Publisher: Anamchara Books
Release Date : 2006

The Gift Of Hope written by Ellyn Sanna and has been published by Anamchara Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Nature categories.

In 2005, a Village Earth staff author and photographer traveled to Thailand to document the tsunami recovery efforts. Using donations from around the world, and the Thai spirit, life was beginning to take on a new sense of normalcy. In late 2005, the pair visited Louisiana, documenting hurricane recovery efforts. This book brings readers face to face with the sense of loss--and of hope--brought by these natural disasters.

Katrina S Wake

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Author : Douglas Lee
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-08-06

Katrina S Wake written by Douglas Lee and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-06 with categories.

TIMED FOR THE FIFTEENTH COMMEMORATION of Hurricane Katrina's dreadful epic of destruction and loss, suffering and death, KATRINA'S WAKE: Journeys on a Hurricane Coast takes the reader along with lifelong journalist and nature writer Doug Lee, also a photographer and expatriate native son of the Central Gulf Coast, on a post-storm pilgrimage to a part of the world he has known well and loved deeply all his life. There he searches out what tattered remnants can still be found of an older way of life, conducted over extensive travels to New Orleans and surrounding areas of Louisiana and Mississippi in the critical years of 2006 to 2009, when the region's comeback was just beginning, whole neighborhoods of New Orleans remained all but abandoned, and the storm's debris and wreckage still littered the landscape. Katrina's Wake is a window into that tenuous period when come-backs were in question, and, further, an in-depth exploration of the Gulf Coast with an eye to the much longer view, evaluating the role that Louisiana's disappearing coastal wetlands have historically played in mitigating hurricanes' damage to New Orleans, and how they can be restored to significant portions of their former area, presently about 4,000 square miles of marshes, bayous and swamps. That's decreased by a third from its original natural extent since whole-scale levee-building along the Mississippi River undertaken nearly a century ago cut off their main source of fresh water and sediments borne by the Big Muddy's annual floods, and as you read this, they're still eroding at the rate of a football field's worth of invaluable wetlands every hour and a half, round the clock, every day of the year. Lee reports on the steps that can and must be taken to restore these protective and incredibly fertile wetlands, home at some point in their life cycles to every commercial species of fish, shrimp or crustacean that swims in the Gulf of Mexico. Equally critical, they constitute a protective bulwark for South Louisiana's towns and cities, most notably New Orleans, by lowering a hurricane's storm surge a foot for every three miles of wetlands it covers as it plows inland. This phenomenon has become well-known in South Louisiana as providing 'Speed Bumps for Hurricanes', a phrase that's become a rallying cry for restoring the coastal marshes through major engineering projects channeling the Mississippi's overflows into strategically critical areas of damaged or destroyed wetlands..These and a great many other aspects of the storm and its aftermath are explored in this book, as well as the region's long-term prospects, resting on a foundation of extensive reportage by the author for articles published in National Geographic in the 1980s and '90s, when he was a senior staff writer and editor in the magazine's Science Department. Those early travels and the more recent journeys he undertook from 2006 into 2009 to research and write Katrina's Wake have given him a knowledge and intimacy with the quirky life and colorful history of settlements and their vividly individualistic inhabitants who have resided beside the river south of New Orleans in the Mississippi River Delta, all but forgotten by modern readers or lovers of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast's history. Traveling with him, we meet a vivid cast of swamp frontiersmen born a century late, fierce and determined urban survivors, and embattled oystermen, fishermen and and shrimpers, academics and scientists all united in one thing: their love and grief for this coast's many indelible cultures and its wounded natural inheritance, whose future lies now in our hands, and their determination and dedication to revivifying the life abundant they once knew so well.Lee's fascination with this region is both professional and personal, as he spent most summers of his pre-teen and teen years driving tractors and milking cows, barefoot in his Uncle Frank's dairy barn on the family's Mississippi Coast farm.

Survivors

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Author : Tony Simmons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-11-20

Survivors written by Tony Simmons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-20 with categories.

When the skies cleared over the Florida Panhandle on Oct. 10, 2018, the strongest storm ever to strike the state had left thousands devastated, and dozens dead. The survivors struggled without power, clean water or working sewer, literally digging their homes and businesses out of rubble, or from underneath fallen trees.In that raw moment, artists and writers and photographers began to process the pain. The Syndicate Studio, a Panama City-based cooperative, reached out and asked for their poems, essays, short stories, drawings, paintings and photographs created in the wake and wreckage of Hurricane Michael. The idea was to gather that pain and turn it into something positive - a compendium to be used to raise funds for local hurricane relief efforts.While the wounds were still open and raw. Before we managed distance or perspective. As we climbed out of the darkness. We wanted to understand what this world-changing, life-changing event means in the moment. To the survivors, their loved ones and friends.We were walking out of the wilderness together. Taking those first steps. This is what the first steps of the journey showed us.

Hurricane Destruction In South Carolina

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Author : Tom Rubillo
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2006-06-01

Hurricane Destruction In South Carolina written by Tom Rubillo and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-01 with History categories.

In late September 1989, South Carolina was rocked by the colossal force of Hurricane Hugo. A category four hurricane, Hugo devastated the coast and other regions of the state, claiming dozens of lives and causing billions of dollars in damage. Hugo was the Palmetto States most destructive natural disaster in recent memory, but the story of that storm is only part of the larger history of hurricanes in South Carolina. A History of Hurricane Destruction in South Carolina: Hell and High Water examines more than thirty major hurricanes that have struck the state since the 1800s, offering a revealing look at the destruction and loss that results from these violent manifestations of natures power. Author Tom Rubillo brings to bear a breadth of research and incorporates first-person accounts of the storms and the struggle of survivors forced to rebuild in the wake of tremendous losses. Hell and High Water is at once a history of the damage wrought by the fury of hurricanes and a reminder that the next great storm could be no more than a season away.

Beyond Recovery

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Author : Benjamin Lee Preston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-15

Beyond Recovery written by Benjamin Lee Preston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-15 with Computers categories.

The recovery plan for the water sector in Puerto Rico involves not only repairing hurricane-damaged water infrastructure and systems but also fixing the significant legacy challenges in the sector's infrastructure, operations, and governance.