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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes | Eric Jay Dolin
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With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. Hurricanes menace North America from June through November every year, each (…more)
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Growing up in Minnesota, hurricanes weren't really something I needed to worry about. Back there it was tornadoes, blizzards, droughts, flooding, ice storms, and the occasional fire, so this was highly interesting.
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As our climate changes things are only going to shift and so forewarned is forearmed. I learned a few new things and confirmed the old lesson that when it comes to a battle between humankind and Mother Nature, she will always win.

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Fascinating book about the impact hurricanes have had on the U.S. over the past 500 years. This section on how the naming convention for hurricanes was developed was both hilarious and horrifying at the thought of giving them the names of U.S. Senators. I mean, Mitch McConnell is already destroying the country from within—I don‘t want to imagine the physical destruction a Hurricane Mitch McConnell would wreak.

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Megabooks Love it!! 😂😂 4y
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When you‘re trying to read and you have the feeling that someone is watching you ...
#catsoflitsy

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When you‘re reading a book about the history of hurricanes and you find a personal narrative from one of your own ancestors describing a storm that hit New England in 1635! Richard Mather was my 10-times-great-grandfather. His son Eleazer, my 9x-great-grandpa, was born in Dorchester, Mass., in 1637, less than two years after the hurricane that his father details in his account. (Yes, I‘m a huge genealogy geek. 😬)

SamAnne Oh wow! I‘ve read a lot about the Mathers! 5y
Suet624 That‘s awesome! 5y
Ruthiella That‘s pretty neat! 😀 5y
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BarbaraBB That is very cool! 5y
Freespirit Wow..amazing! 5y
Amiable @SamAnne My great-grandpa Eleazer was Increase Mather‘s brother and Cotton Mather‘s uncle. It‘s an interesting family line to research, for sure! 5y
akfreeborn I love that. I had a client that was quoted saying “well I‘ll be damned” when Zamperini returned in Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand. We talked about it and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. This is your family that you can‘t talk to. So cool! 5y
Clare-Dragonfly Wow! That‘s super interesting! 5y
CindiB That must have been so amazing. 5y
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