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KlappentextIn this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC's Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history?a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today's new age of extreme weather.
On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, two-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and fifteen-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the booming port city on Texas's Gulf Coast. By dawn the next day, the city that hours earlier had stood as a symbol of America's growth and expansion, was gone. Shattered, grief-stricken survivors emerged to witness a level of destruction never before seen. Rushing water from the storm, which caused 8,000 deaths, had lifted buildings from their foundations, smashing them into pieces, while wind gusts had upended steel girders and trestles, driving them through house walls and into sidewalks. No race or class was spared its wrath. In less than twenty-four hours, a single storm had destroyed a major American metropolis?and awakened a nation to the terrifying power of nature.
On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, two-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and fifteen-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the booming port city on Texas's Gulf Coast. By dawn the next day, the city that hours earlier had stood as a symbol of America's growth and expansion, was gone. Shattered, grief-stricken survivors emerged to witness a level of destruction never before seen. Rushing water from the storm, which caused 8,000 deaths, had lifted buildings from their foundations, smashing them into pieces, while wind gusts had upended steel girders and trestles, driving them through house walls and into sidewalks. No race or class was spared its wrath. In less than twenty-four hours, a single storm had destroyed a major American metropolis?and awakened a nation to the terrifying power of nature.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-06-239302-9
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2015
Erscheinungsdatum11.08.2015
Seiten432 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 20 mm
Gewicht454 g
Artikel-Nr.33322932
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GenreGeschichte/Politik