Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now, page 8
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Atlantic (Ocean/Coast) 11, 14, 19, 24–25, 27, 53, 78, 125, 135, 142, 147, 155, 157
atmosphere 4, 36, 54, 135, 141–43
barometers 21, 35–37, 141, 148, 151
Barton, Clara xix, 116–17
Blagdon, John D. 17, 35
Bristol, Mary Louise xix, 75–77, 104–05, 118
Caribbean 15, 19, 22, 125, 157
climate change/global warming 47, 134–36, 146
climatologists 134–36
Cline, Cora 4, 6, 42, 82, 84–85, 112
Cline, Isaac xx, 3–4, 6, 17–20, 24, 30–35, 41–43, 45, 46, 62, 80–85, 83, 112–113, 122
Cline, Joseph xx, 17, 30–31, 34, 41–43, 80–85, 113–14, 122
Collins, Izola xv, xvi, xxi–ii, 9–10, 66, 95, 98
Cuba 22–23, 25, 122
Cuney, Norris Wright 8
cyclones 18, 27, 29, 54, 125, 136, 141–42, 146–47, 155, 159
Dent, Jessie 9, 10
Elford, Milton xxi, 66–67, 68, 100–01, 103
Emergency Supplies Checklist 110–11
eyewall 13, 38, 141, 148, 150
FEMA 111, 116
Florida 14, 22, 32, 125, 127, 156–57
Galveston
city xv, 3–4, 5–10, 115, 121
Great Hurricane iv–v, vi, x, xi, xiii, xv–xvi, xix–xxiii, 1, 3–4, 14, 17–18, 20, 20–21, 24–25, 33–34, 39, 41, 44–45, 45, 47, 50, 53, 60, 62, 70, 78, 83, 86, 92, 95, 96–97, 98, 101–02, 105, 109–10, 113, 115, 117–19, 120, 121–22, 125, 127, 131–32, 137–38, 156, 161–62
hurricane victims 96–97, 98, 106, 120, 137–38
Island 17, 42, 46, 83, 92, 115–16,
segregation and racial prejudice in 7–8, 10, 98
survivors xv, 82, 85, 86, 89–109, 114, 117, 122
Gangoite, Fr. Lorenzo 23–25, 122
Geostationary satellite (GOES) 15, 142, 146
Goldbeck, Cora 113–14
greenhouse effect 135, 142
Gulf of Mexico xii–xiii, 5–6, 14, 17–18, 20, 24–25, 31, 34, 42, 46, 75, 83, 85, 97, 112, 121, 127
Havana, Cuba 22–24
Hurácan 15
hurricane formation 12–16
Hurricane Hunters 16
Hurricane Andrew 158, 159, 160
Hurricane Camille 157
Hurricane Caroline 16
Hurricane Frederic 123
Hurricane Harvey 78, 130, 132, 136, 158, 160
Hurricane Hugo 157–58
Hurricane Irma 160
Hurricane Ivan 160
Hurricane Katrina 78, 126, 126, 127–31, 128, 129, 131, 152, 160
Hurricane Maria xxiv, 78, 132–33, 158, 160
Hurricane Mitch124
Hurricane Rita 78, 160
Hurricane Wilma 78, 160
hurricanes, categories of 61–62, 144, 149, 160
hurricanes, list of the costliest 159–60
Jover, Julio 23–24
Juneteenth xv, 7
Lake Borgne 128
Lake Pontchartrain 128
Lee, Opal 7
Louisiana 14, 127, 130, 157
Maxson, Harry x, , xi, xi, xxi, 55–60, 76, 105–06, 108–09
McCullough, Annie Smizer xvi, xxi–xxii, 63–66, 65, 95, 98, 102
McGuire, Robert 9, 10
meteorologists 23, 27, 134
meteorology 4, 31, 143, 148
Miami 126, 156
Mississippi 14, 127, 128, 131, 157
Monagan, Thomas xxii, 115–16
Moore, Willis 19, 22–23, 25–26, 122
National Hurricane Center 53, 62, 78–79, 152, 160, 162
New Orleans xx, 24, 122, 127–29, 129
NOAA xxiv,12, 14–16, 14, 19, 38, 44, 53–54, 62, 78–79, 132, 134, 136, 142–44, 151–52, 159, 162
Pacific Ocean 27–28, 142, 146–47, 155
Puerto Rico xxiv, 127, 132–33, 155–56, 158
radar 15, 19, 123, 126, 143
Roker, Al 24
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale 61, 144
Sahara Desert 11
Scull, Horace 6–9
Scull, Ralph Albert xvi, xxii, 6, 9, 95
seawall 18, 121, 138, 145
Stockman, William 22–23
storm surges xii, 32, 42, 44–45, 45, 80, 121, 128, 135, 137, 145, 147–8
Texas vi, xi, 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, 18, 20, 24, 25, 75, 98, 113–14, 118–19, 122, 132, 136–37, 156, 158
Timetable of Major U.S. Hurricanes 155–58
Torricelli, Evangelista 36
tropics 11, 145
tsunami 150
typhoon 27, 37, 146, 147–8, 150
Unscramble 149
U.S. Weather Bureau 3, 19, 22, 25, 32, 33, 122
forecasters xxiv, 16, 18, 21, 23–25, 29, 36, 134, 151
observers xx, 4, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 30
satellites xxiv, 15, 18 134, 142, 146, 150, 159
Vedder, Katherine xxiii, 3, 46–52, 47, 50, 57, 89–92
Viñes, Fr. Benito 23
Washington, DC 7, 19, 22, 32, 33, 34
Wolfram, Arnold R. xxiii, 70–74, 72, 93–94
One of the deadliest hurricanes in modern times was Hurricane Katrina. This NOAA satellite image of Katrina was taken on August 28, 2005, when the storm was at its peak intensity.
Deborah Hopkinson is an award-winning author of picture books, middle grade fiction, and nonfiction. Her nonfiction titles include We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance; We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport; Titanic: Voices from the Disaster, a Sibert Medal Honor Book and YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction finalist; Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark, a Sydney Taylor Notable Book, NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended Book, and a winner of the Oregon Book Award and Oregon Spirit Award; Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific, an NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended Book and Oregon Spirit Award Honor Book; and D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History.
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