North Carolina's Hurricane History : Fourth Edition, Updated with a Decade of New Storms from Isabel to Sandy /

"North Carolina's hurricane history charts the more than fifty great storms that have battered the Tar Heel State from the colonial era through Irene in 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, two of the costliest hurricanes on record. Drawing on news reports, National Weather Service records,...

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Autor principal: Barnes, Jay
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press., 2013.
Edición:4th ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hurricanes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.
NATURE > Natural Disasters.
Ouragans > Caroline du Nord > Histoire.
Hurricanes > North Carolina > History.
North Carolina.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 A HURRICANE PRIMER; 2 EARLY NORTH CAROLINA HURRICANES, 1524-1861; 3 TAR HEEL TRAGEDIES, 1875-1900; September 17, 1876; October 22, 1878; August 18, 1879; September 9, 1881; 1882; September 11, 1883; August 25, 1885; August 27-29, 1893; October 13, 1893; August 16-18, 1899; October 30-31, 1899; 4 HURRICANES OF THE NEW CENTURY, 1901-1950; November 13, 1904; September 17, 1906; September 3, 1913; July 14-16, 1916; September 18-19, 1928; October 1-2, 1929; August 22-23, 1933; September 15-16, 1933; September 18, 1936; August 1, 1944; September 14, 1944
  • 5 HURRICANE ALLEY, 1951-1960Barbara (August 13, 1953); Carol (August 30, 1954); Edna (September 10, 1954); Hazel (October 15, 1954); Connie (August 12, 1955); Diane (August 17, 1955); Ione (September 19, 1955); Helene (September 27, 1958); Donna (September 11, 1960); 6 THE MODERN ERA, 1961-2000; Ginger (September 30-October 1, 1971); Agnes (June 20-21, 1972); David (September 5, 1979); Diana (September 9-14, 1984); Gloria (September 26-27, 1985); Charley (August 17-18, 1986); Hugo (September 21-22, 1989); Emily (August 31, 1993); Bertha (July 12-13, 1996); Fran (September 5-6, 1996)
  • Bonnie (August 26-28, 1998)Dennis (August 30-September 5, 1999); Floyd (September 16, 1999); 7 THE NEW MILLENNIUM, 2001-2012; Isabel (September 18, 2003); Alex, Bonnie, Charley, Gaston, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne (2004); Ophelia (September 14-15, 2005); Irene (August 27, 2011); Sandy (October 27-29, 2012); 8 CREATURES IN THE STORM; 9 THE NEXT GREAT STORM; RESOURCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

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