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The Summer of Death: The Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the Making of Modern-Day America:
"I bought this book for my meteorologist husband and kept borrowing it from his nightstand to read myself. Geoff Williams engagingly combines meticulously researched history and weather science with human drama."
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"This is a long book, but it was very interesting. Even back in 1936, they were discussing the potential for a warming climate which I think gets lost in all the other stories. While our medicine is better and we have wide spread air conditioning, we "
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“Near the end of the flood, weather forecasters began tallying up just how much rain had fallen in the Dayton area alone. One estimate making the rounds shortly afterward was that during the four days it rained on Dayton, the amount of water dumping over the city and passing through the streets equaled the amount of water that flows over Niagara Falls in a four-day period.”
― Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever
― Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever
“United States Weather Bureau concluded that over 8,000 square miles,* 9 trillion gallons of water fell, weighing 33 billion tons.”
― Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever
― Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever
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Time to select our Oct thru Dec Non-fiction book, Ladies! Altho we did not get 10 nominations, I think that the 8 nominations we did get are all very good book selections. So, are we ready to vote?? Let's do it!
The poll will stay open until September 25th.
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