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Texas disasters : true stories of tragedy and survival /
True accounts of major disasters in Texas history are retold in this engagingly written collection. In this part of the country tornadoes are a frequent threat, but in addition to the many violent twisters, Texas residents have experienced fires, floods, drought, blizzards, shipwrecks, and other dev...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Guilford, Connecticut :
Globe Pequot,
[2015]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Colección: | Disasters series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a "Most of us will perish": lost Spanish fleet (1554) -- Yellow Jack came to Texas: the year of death (1867) -- "The town is gone": Indianola hurricanes (1875 and 1886) -- "All washed away": Ben Ficklin flood (1882) -- A city in ruins: Galveston hurricane (1900) -- "God seemed nigh": Goliad tornado (1902) -- The end of the line: Locomotive 704 explosion (1912) -- Fire strikes twice: Paris goes up in flames (1916) -- Deadly drought-breaker: Central Texas flood (1921) -- "Blown away": Rocksprings tornado (1927) -- The day a generation died: New London School explosion (1937) -- Deadliest fire in Texas: Houston's Gulf Hotel blaze (1943) -- Fuel to the fire: Texas City explosion (1947) -- "They're catching hell": Waco tornado (1953) -- Record-setting snowfall: Panhandle blizzard (1956) -- Building the Bermuda Triangle myth: SS Marine Sulphur Queen mystery (1963) -- Flash flood: tragedy in Terrell County (1965) -- Terrible Tuesday: Witchita Falls tornado (1979) -- "Horizontal tornadoes": the crash of Delta 191 (1985) -- One writer's experience: Hurricane Ike (2008) -- A community comes together: West explosion (2013). | |
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