Mighty Storms of New England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mighty Storms of New England write by Eric P. Fisher. This book was released on 2021-10-21. Mighty Storms of New England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Historic Storms of New England
Historic Storms of New England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historic Storms of New England write by Sidney Perley. This book was released on 1891. Historic Storms of New England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Thirty-Eight
Thirty-Eight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thirty-Eight write by Stephen Long. This book was released on 2016-03-22. Thirty-Eight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Historic Storms of New England
Historic Storms of New England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historic Storms of New England write by Sidney Perley. This book was released on 2019-08-02. Historic Storms of New England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Path in the Mighty Waters
A Path in the Mighty Waters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Path in the Mighty Waters write by Stephen Russell Berry. This book was released on 2015-01-01. A Path in the Mighty Waters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book tells the story of how people experienced the eighteenth-century crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, exploring the transformative journey undertaken by the thousands of Europeans who journeyed in search of a better life. Stephen Berry shows how the ships, on which passengers were contained in close quarters for months at a time, operated as compressed "frontiers," where diverse groups encountered one another and established new patterns of social organization. As he argues that experiences aboardship served as a profound conversion experience for travelers, both spiritually and culturally, Berry reframes the history of Atlantic migrations, giving the ocean and the ship a more prominent role in Atlantic history. The ocean was more than a backdropfor human events: it actively shaped historical experiences by furnishing a dissociative break from normal patterns of life and a formative stage in travelers' processes of collective identification"--
