| Main Title |
What stands in a storm : three days in the worst superstorm to hit the South's tornado alley / |
| Author |
Cross, Kim
|
| Publisher |
Atria Books, |
| Year Published |
2015 |
| OCLC Number |
883148129 |
| ISBN |
9781476763064; 1476763062 |
| Subjects |
Tornadoes--Alabama ;
Disaster victims--Biography ;
Survival ;
NATURE / Natural Disasters ;
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) ;
Tornadoes--Southern States
|
| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| ELBM |
QC955.5.U6C76 2015 |
|
AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH |
04/18/2023 |
|
| Edition |
First Atria books hardcover edition. |
| Collation |
xiii, 301 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents Notes |
Racing the storm -- Trouble on the horizon -- The calm -- The prelude -- The opening act -- Ground truth -- Scanning the skies -- Tornado down -- Birth of a weatherman -- Red-letter day -- Unbroken -- Chasers -- Safe place -- Cordova -- Code Gray -- Entrapment -- Slouching toward Tuscaloosa -- The train -- The rescue -- The silence -- Under siege -- The house -- Charleston Square -- Beverly Heights -- Twilight -- The search -- The unthinkable -- Graduation day -- The walk -- Chance -- The wake -- Picking up the pieces -- But not destroyed -- The wedding -- Healing -- One step at a time -- The anniversary -- Remembering -- The master. April 27, 2011, marked the climax of a superstorm that saw a record 358 tornadoes rip through twenty-one states in three days, seven hours, and eighteen minutes. It was the deadliest day of the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history, which saw 348 people killed, entire neighborhoods erased, and $11 billion in damage. The biggest of the tornadoes left scars across the land so wide they could be seen from space. But from the terrible destruction emerged everyday heroes, neighbors and strangers who rescued each other from hell on earth. Kim Cross weaves together the heart-wrenching stories of several characters -- including three college students, a celebrity weatherman, and a team of hard-hit rescuers -- to create a nail-biting chronicle in the Tornado Alley of America. No, it's not Oklahoma or Kansas; it's Alabama, where there are more tornado fatalities than anywhere in the U.S., where the trees and hills obscure the storms until they're bearing down upon you. For some, it's a story of survival, and for others it's the story of their last hours. |
| Place Published |
New York |
| PUB Date Free Form |
©2015 |
| BIB Level |
m |
| Medium |
unmediated |
| Content |
text |
| Carrier |
volume |
| Cataloging Source |
RDA |
| LCCN |
2014035817 |
| Merged OCLC records |
904179337; 962212317; 966403875 |
| OCLC Time Stamp |
20230413213017 |
| Language |
eng |
| Origin |
OCLC |
| Type |
CAT |
| OCLC Rec Leader |
04168cam 2200613 i 45010 |
