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Category 5 by Judith A. Howard (2007, Hardcover) 
Category 5 by Judith A. Howard (2007, Hardcover)

 
Category 5 by Judith A. Howard (2007, Hardcover)

Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
Publication Date: 2007-11-15
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0472115251
ISBN-13: 9780472115259
Product ID: EPID48428292
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Publication Date:2007-11-15

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Length:276 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:21.1 oz

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As the unsettled social and political weather of summer 1969 played itself out amid the heat of antiwar marches and the battle for civil rights, three regions of the rural South were devastated by the horrifying force of Category 5 Hurricane Camille. Camille's nearly 200 mile per hour winds and 28-foot storm surge swept away thousands of homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Twenty-four oceangoing ships sank or were beached; six offshore drilling platforms collapsed; 198 people drowned. Two days later, Camille dropped 108 billion tons of moisture drawn from the Gulf onto the rural communities of Nelson County, Virginia--nearly three feet of rain in 24 hours. Mountainsides were washed away; quiet brooks became raging torrents; homes and whole communities were simply washed off the face of the earth. In this gripping account, Ernest Zebrowski and Judith Howard tell the heroic story of America's forgotten rural underclass coping with immense adversity and inconceivable tragedy. CATEGORY 5 shows, through the riveting stories of Camille's victims and survivors, the disproportionate impact of natural disasters on the nation's poorest communities. It is, ultimately, a story of the lessons learned--and, in some cases, tragically unlearned--from that storm: hard lessons that were driven home once again in the awful wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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