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Author : Sidney Perley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Historic Storms of New England written by Sidney Perley and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney Perley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333873769
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (737 download)
Download or read book Historic Storms of New England written by Sidney Perley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historic Storms of New England: Its Gales, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Showers With Thunder and Lightning, Great Snow Storms, Rains, Freshets, Floods, Droughts, Cold Winters, Hot Summers, Avalanches, Earthquakes, Dark Days, Comets, Aurora-Borealis, Phenomena in the Heavens New England lies between the torrid and the frigid zones, and its climate often suddenly changes from that of one zone to that of the other, having at times the hot wind and air of the south, and again the snow and ice and cold of the north. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Sidney Perley
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ISBN 13 : 9781375608428
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Historic Storms of New England: Its Gales, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Showers with Thunder and Lightning, Great Snow Storms, Rains, Freshets, Floods, Drou written by Sidney Perley and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric P. Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149304351X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Mighty Storms of New England written by Eric P. Fisher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New England landscape has long been battered by some of the most intense weather in the United States. The region breeds one of the highest concentrations of meteorologists in the country for a reason. One can experience just about anything except a dust storm. Snowstorms, floods, droughts, heat waves, arctic blasts, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and other atmospheric oddities come and go with the changing seasons. Rare is the boring year of weather. Knowing the past is a critical part of understanding and forecasting the weather. Meteorologist Eric Fisher takes an in depth look at some of the most intense weather events in New England’s history. The stories in this book not only describe the loss and the damage caused by the storms, but also how nearly all of them in left such an impression that they immediately led to progress where new warnings systems were implemented, government agencies formed, and technology accelerated in response to the devastation these events left behind.
Author : Sidney Perley
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230381305
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Historic Storms of New England; Its Gales, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Showers with Thunder and Lightning, Great Snow Storms, Rains, Freshets, Floods, Drou written by Sidney Perley and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER LII. The Gale of September 23, 1813. THE summer of 1815 was remarkable for exceptionally violent and disastrous storms all along the Atlantic coast, and the columns of the newspapers were filled with accounts of the great destruction of life and property on both land and sea. The equinoctial gale of September, however, exceeded them all in violence, and caused greater and more general disaster than any that had preceded it, not that year only but since the settlement of the country. The storm began at three o'clock on the morning of Friday, the twenty-second, when the wind was at the northeast, and rain fell copiously until sunrise. Shortly after, the clouds partly broke away, and fair weather seemed about to return. During the forenoon, however, the clouds became thicker, the sky darkened, and in some sections of New England rain fell to a considerable amount. In the afternoon the wind blew with increased force, and rain continued to fall in small quantities. Through the night the wind was moderate, and there was a slight fall of rain, but before sunrise next morning the wind again became violent having changed to the east in the night, and about nine o'clock was very strong, having veered to the east-northeast. At ten o'clock it shifted to the southeast, and continued to increase in force until it blew so fiercely that buildings, fences, trees, vessels along the exposed sections of the coast, and all kinds of movable things, were swept away before it. But little rain fell during the tornado where it was the fiercest. The wind did not blow steadily, but came in gusts, and continued its work of destruction until noon, when it changed to the southwest, after which it quickly subsided. Then a little more rain fell, but before night...
Author : Stephen Long
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030022088X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Thirty-Eight written by Stephen Long and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England’s most damaging weather event ever. To call it “New England’s Katrina” might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island and New England, killing hundreds of people and destroying roads, bridges, dams, and buildings that stood in its path. Not yet spent, the hurricane then raced inland, maintaining high winds into Vermont and New Hampshire and uprooting millions of acres of forest. This book is the first to investigate how the hurricane of ’38 transformed New England, bringing about social and ecological changes that can still be observed these many decades later. The hurricane’s impact was erratic—some swaths of forest were destroyed while others nearby remained unscathed; some stricken forests retain their prehurricane character, others have been transformed. Stephen Long explores these contradictions, drawing on survivors’ vivid memories of the storm and its aftermath and on his own familiarity with New England’s forests, where he discovers clues to the storm’s legacies even now. Thirty-Eight is a gripping story of a singularly destructive hurricane. It also provides important and insightful information on how best to prepare for the inevitable next great storm.
Author : Christopher J. Haraden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972784504
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Storm of the Century written by Christopher J. Haraden and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The record-setting storm's impact on the area is explored through first-hand accounts from survivors, relief workers and former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, among others.
Author : Joseph P. Soares
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738557595
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book The 1938 Hurricane Along New England's Coast written by Joseph P. Soares and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictorial images of the devastation of New England's coast after a devastating hurricane in 1938.
Author : Sidney Perley
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781343083110
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Historic Storms of New England written by Sidney Perley and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Lourdes B. Avilés
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781878220370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Taken by Storm 1938 written by Lourdes B. Avilés and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On September 21, 1938 the great New England hurricane hit the shores of New York and New England unannounced. The most powerful storm of the century, it changed everything, from the landscape and its inhabitants' lives, to Red Cross and Weather Bureau protocols, to the amount of Great Depression Relief New Englanders would receive, and the resulting pace of regional economic recovery"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Rick Schwartz
Publisher : Blue Diamond Books
ISBN 13 : 9780978628000
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States written by Rick Schwartz and published by Blue Diamond Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference traces the region's 400-year recorded hurricane history, from Jamestown to the present, drawing on accounts in newspaper articles, books, private journals, and interviews. Emphasizing the human side of a hurricane's aftermath rather than scientific aspects, each hurricane account tells how individuals and communities reacted to the storms. Storms are profiled in year-by-year entries from the 1600's to the current century.
Author : Edward Rowe Snow
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1933212217
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Storms and Shipwrecks of New England written by Edward Rowe Snow and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic by Edward Rowe Snow, first published in 1943 and updated in 1944 and again in 1946, Storms and Shipwrecks of New England relates what William P. Quinn calls ""stories of stormy adventure."" Jeremy D'Entremont has provided annotations to Snow's chapters, covering the pirate ship Whidah, the wreck of the City of Columbus, the Portland Gale, the 1938 hurricane, and more, bringing the information about the storms and shipwrecks up to date.
Author : R. A. Scotti
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 031605478X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Sudden Sea written by R. A. Scotti and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.
Author : Perley Sidney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337258641
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Historic Storms of New England written by Perley Sidney and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic Storms of New England is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : Sidney Perley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781086048087
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Historic Storms of New England written by Sidney Perley and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devastating ice storms, wildfires burning out of control, the shrinking polar icecap, earthquakes, powerful tsunamis and hurricanes. We hear of (and sometimes experience) extreme weather and environmental disasters all our lives. Humankind lives uneasily on an often-volatile planet. With all our advanced technology and growing base of scientific knowledge, we still have not found a way to control the power of nature. Whether it be the wild force of a storm at sea, or the quiet magic of an acorn that becomes an oak tree, humans are often mystified and made powerless by the natural world. Whether your interest in reading this book is based on nature, weather, shipwrecks, or history, you'll find much here to delight and terrify. Sidney Perley's exhaustive research into a period covering the earliest recorded accounts of New England's European settlers to the more "modern" time of the 1890s, captures all the heroism and pathos of humans in the path of forces beyond their control. Sidney Perley went far above and beyond in his own research. A lawyer by profession, he dedicated huge amounts of time and effort outside the office, to researching and preserving a valuable portion of New England history. His prolific work serves as historical reference not only for genealogists and historians, but also for those of us writing about early New England. His well-researched, boots-on-the-ground details of people, events, buildings, town histories, and weather provide rich material for writing about the day-to-day lives of bygone days. His descriptions often have a "man on the street," eyewitness feel to them since his research pulled from newspaper accounts, town histories, and memoirs. That rich detail is very much in evidence here in Historic Storms of New England. Perley captures the excitement, dread, heroism, and tragedy of those who experienced the storms. Far from being a dry recitation of incidents, Perley's vivid recounting will likely send his readers diving for cover at the slightest rumble of thunder or change in the wind. He reminds us, now, as he did when the book was first written in 1891, that humankind is tiny and frail when compared to a roaring gale on land or sea or a mountain freshet that carries away all man's work in a single moment.
Author : Robert Thorson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802719201
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Stone by Stone written by Robert Thorson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story-about the geothermal forces that formed their stones, the tectonic movements that brought them to the surface, the glacial tide that broke them apart, the earth that held them for so long, and about the humans who built them. Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.
Author : Stuart B. Schwartz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173605
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Sea of Storms written by Stuart B. Schwartz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the Caribbean The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced the region's history, from the rise of plantations, to slavery and its abolition, to migrations, racial conflict, and war. Taking readers from the voyages of Columbus to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Schwartz looks at the ethical, political, and economic challenges that hurricanes posed to the Caribbean’s indigenous populations and the different European peoples who ventured to the New World to exploit its riches. He describes how the United States provided the model for responding to environmental threats when it emerged as a major power and began to exert its influence over the Caribbean in the nineteenth century, and how the region’s governments came to assume greater responsibilities for prevention and relief, efforts that by the end of the twentieth century were being questioned by free-market neoliberals. Schwartz sheds light on catastrophes like Katrina by framing them within a long and contentious history of human interaction with the natural world. Spanning more than five centuries and drawing on extensive archival research in Europe and the Americas, Sea of Storms emphasizes the continuing role of race, social inequality, and economic ideology in the shaping of our responses to natural disaster.
