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We read this book while we were hanging out in the basement during Isabel a couple of years ago. I just pulled it out again at patrick's request.
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I'll have to add that to my library eventually when ds grows older. I was born and lived in Houston for 11 years...and our beach trips were always Galveston, just for the day, weekend, etc. Lots of good memories there.
Now is this the same storm that took thousands of lives in Corpus Christi? Or was that another one? Is there a living book on that story?
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This one is the Storm of September 8, 1900.
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I was confused. My parents talked about a hurricane in Corpus Christi. I think it was Celia, in 1970. Just lots of damage, not thousands of lives.
NOAA weather site has some good reading on Texas Hurricane History to do a comparison.
Here's Louisiana Hurricanes, too.
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Not a hurricane, but a flood related book is The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough. I bought the audio DVD for our trips back and forth to Altoona (nearby Johnstown) and dh and I have really enjoyed it. It's gripping and quite a living book. It's probably suitable for 11 on up for read-aloud.
I brought this up because my mother-in-law talks about going over with her husband to view the devastation after Hurricane Agnes in 1972 in Johnstown (an hour away). Although not impacted by the winds, the city was greatly affected by the flooding. The stench of the mildew and other stuff in the city has made it a very vivid memory for her.
Because of the flood in New Orleans and it being below sea level and discussion of rebuilding, we have been bringing up other geographical places that experience natural disasters and yet rebuild. Johnstown is not a very good place to build a city, in the valley with several rivers converging. What about the dykes in the Netherlands?...If not for the dykes, most everything would be under sea water!
Any book, picture or otherwise of the boy that plugs the hole in the dyke?
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An older (teens and adults) great read is Isaac's Storm about the Galveston Hurricane....lots of great living history in this book!
Enjoy!
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Mary G. wrote:
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I love storm books. Isaac's Storm is a fantastic book. Not only is it a riveting account of the night of the hurricane and all the horrors of those who experienced it, it is an excellent history of the U.S. Weather service. Be careful about the sensitivity of your teens. There are things like men hearing the screams of women and children through the wind and stuff  . Also, there was a lot of hanky panky going on on the part of some of the Signal Corps (weather) appointees going on on the job. Some of that history is in the book as well.
Another storm book that details the Weather service history isThe Children's Blizzard. The book got its name from the fact that the children were all in school when the blizzard hit. I think L.I. Wilder may have still been on the SD prairie during that blizzard.
What happened in Galveston was that the storm surge picked up the buildings on the coast and slammed them into the buildings on the next block and so on and so on. Great book Mary!
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Thanks for the book tips! I can't wait to check them out. Thank God Galveston was spared from Rita!
I had put the info about the other cities earlier in this thread. Just a bit of current news trivia. I correspond with a Dutchman I met on the World Youth Day in Poland in 1993. He just wrote to me thatA part of our country is, indeed, living below sea-level (we not). Our country is protected by a extensive system of dikes and dams (The Delta Works). We are improving our system after the catastrophe in New Orleans. I found that interesting that the effects of our natural disaster is long-reaching...even the preventative measures.
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I just wanted to interject here that Julie Lake's daughters used to study piano with my husband. I believe her book about Galveston's Summer of the Storm came out sometime after they had quit studying. Nonetheless, we have an autographed copy of the book and I just recently (in the last year) ran into her at the local grocery store. My son just finished reading her book...
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The reference to that boy comes in the book Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates. Interestingly as I was looking for other info on dykes and the Netherlands because of the recommendation given for the the Katje book, I found this site which talks about the "legend" of the boy with his finger in the dyke - totally invented by the American author of Hans Brinker book. It is not a part of folklore of the Netherlands. The tourism industry in the Netherlands did build a statue of "the boy" in the 1950's to satisfy the mostly American tourists who would come and ask to see the dyke that the boy had plugged. Very interesting - I had no idea as I had always assumed some truth to the story. Silly Americans that we are.
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