Author: Sidney Perley
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-10-07
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781333873769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Publisher:
Published: 2017-08-20
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781375608428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eric P. Fisher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-10-21
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 149304351X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Palala Press
Published: 2015-09-18
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781343083110
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Author: Stephen Long
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-03-22
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 030022088X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Sidney Perley
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781230381305
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Lourdes B. Avilés
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781878220370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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: Joseph P. Soares
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738557595
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pictorial images of the devastation of New England's coast after a devastating hurricane in 1938.
Author: Christopher J. Haraden
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780972784504
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.