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A review by lafate
The Great Hurricane: 1938 by Cherie Burns
challenging
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
This hurricane hit without warning. Not only was meteorology in its infancy, there was a war in Europe, and a young weatherman who was ignored by his peers. So nobody expected what came ashore. This book does an excellent job with personal stories to describe and humanize the tragedy. It explains the basic science of what happened.
My mother and a childhood friend used to talk about this storm. They grew up in New Hampshire in the Connecticut River Valley. I think it needed to be a little longer to account for damage further from the coast. This book's only miss is that it stopped too soon. It gets a strong 4 stars for my broken heart.
My mother and a childhood friend used to talk about this storm. They grew up in New Hampshire in the Connecticut River Valley. I think it needed to be a little longer to account for damage further from the coast. This book's only miss is that it stopped too soon. It gets a strong 4 stars for my broken heart.