Killer Weather: Stories of Great Disasters

by Howard Everett Smith

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0396080553
• ISBN13: 9780396080558
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Dodd Mead
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

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INTERESTING STORIES

Although 'Killer Weather' does not include any fascinating new information about America's meteorological disasters, it is worth reading anyway. One hears twelve chilling stories of death and survival involving hurricanes, tornadoes and floods. The best and longest chapter deals with the New England Hurricane of 1938, in which the author was an eyewitness. Disasters included here are as follows: The New York Blizzard of '88, The Year Without a Summer, Galveston Hurricane, New England Storm of '38, Agnes, 1925 Midwest Tornado, Super-Outbreak of '74, Donnora Smog, Andrea Doria Collision, Big Blowup in Northwest, and finally the Dust Bowl and the Sahel Famine of the early 70's.