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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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).