Accompanied by first-hand accounts from survivors, helps readers prepare for and respond to emergencies and survive the worst-case scenarios during such extreme weather events as hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornadoes.
Three different fishing communities, three different countries, but in their pursuit of fish on the banks they would have much in common, including the terrors of the North Atlantic storms. The August Gales is a richly detailed history of the banks fishery, the perils of the Nor…
"This is the first modern textbook devoted solely to mesoscale-convective processes in the atmosphere. Such processes are realized in the form of thunderstorms and associated phenomena. Thunderstorms are dynamic and fast evolving, and can have high societal impact. For this reas…
The lay-man's sermon upon the late storm
by Hamblyn, Richard, Defoe, Daniel
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