North Carolina's hurricane history /

Newly revised and updated, North Carolina's Hurricane History is a richly illustrated chronological record of more than fifty hurricanes known to have struck the Tar Heel state from the days of the first European explorers through hurricanes Bertha and Fran in 1996. Jay Barnes examined newspape...

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Main Author: Barnes, Jay.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1998.
Edition:Rev. and updated ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Birth of a hurricane
  • Hurricane effects
  • Watching the storms
  • Early North Carolina hurricanes, 1524-1861
  • Tar Heel tragedies, 1875-1900
  • Hurricanes of the new century, 1900-1950
  • Hurricane alley, 1950-1960
  • The modern era, 1960-1997
  • Nor'easters
  • Creatures in the storm
  • The next great storm
  • Hurricane survival.