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The Weather Outside Is Frightful: The Illustrated History of New England's Apocalyptic Blizzards, Ice Storms, Freezes, Gales, Microbursts, Nor'easters, Floods, Droughts, Heat Waves, and Hurricanes
The Weather Outside Is Frightful The Illustrated History of New England's Apocalyptic Blizzards Ice Storms Freezes Gales Microbursts Nor'easters Floods Droughts Heat Waves and Hurricanes Author:J. North Conway, Michael Vieira With hundreds of dramatic color and black-and-white photos, Conway and Vieira highlight the top 60 weather disasters in New England's last 200 years. From the Great September Gale of 1815 and The Year Without a Summer (1816) to Hurricane Sandy (2012) and the Nemo blizzard (2013), this rogue's gallery of cataclysmic weather will leave you wonderi... more »ng how New England has managed to survive. Well-chosen human-interest stories give these disasters human dimension, and a final chapter plumbs the science of climate change to tell us what New England's future weather may bring.
The Weather Outside Is Frightful will be a coffee-table favorite for New Englanders, who know that if you don't like the weather, all you have to do is wait a minute. The hurricane of 1938, the Blizzard of 1978, the Perfect Storm of 1991, the ice storm of 1998--this vividly illustrated history of snow-buried homes, flooded cars and downtowns, hurricane-blasted buildings, and ice-downed trees provides a strangely invigorating opportunity to remember the way we were and to thank the weather gods that we are here to enjoy this book.« less