Nature's Fury

by Vogel, Carole Garbuny

• ISBN13: 9780590115025
• ISBN10: 0590115022
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Summary

Gives eyewitness descriptions of thirteen disasters from 1871 to 1980, including earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, blizzards, drought, flash floods, and wildfires.

Table of Contents

Map	4	(6)
Author's Note	6	(3)
Part 1: On Shaky Ground	9	(32)
The Great San Francisco Earthquake	12	(7)
Alaska's Good Friday Earthquake	19	(7)
Tsunamis	26	(8)
The Day Mount St. Helens Blew Its Top	34	(7)
Part 2: Monster Storms	41	(48)
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane	44	(9)
The New England Hurricane of 1938	53	(9)
The 1925 Tri-State Tornado	62	(7)
A Plague of Tornadoes: The 19741 Tornado Outbreak	69	(5)
The Blizzard of 1888	74	(9)
The Buffalo Blizzard of 1977	83	(6)
Part 3: Water: Too Much, Too Little	89	(24)
Drought in the Nation's Breadbasket: The Dust Bowl	91	(6)
The Great Peshtigo Fire	97	(8)
The Great Flash Flood of Big Thompson Canyon	105	(8)
Conclusion	113	(3)
Source Notes	116	(3)
Additional Information of Natural Disasters	119	(3)
Acknowledgments	122	(1)
Photo Credits	123	(1)
Index	124	(3)
About the Author	127