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Tornadoes

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• Wind- und Wasserhosen in Europa (in German; Braunschweig: F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1917), by Alfred Wegener
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • illustrated transcription: PDF files in Germany

• Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters: America's Greatest Calamity: A Complete and Authentic Account of the Awful Flood of 1913 in the Rich and Fertile Valleys of Ohio and Indiana, by Thomas Herbert Russell (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)

• The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado (c1913), by Logan Marshall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Early American Hurricanes, 1492-1870 (Boston: American Meteorological Society, c1963), by David M. Ludlum (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hurricane (c1936), by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Chita: A Memory of Last Island, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (PDF files at louisiana.gov)

• Hurricane Elena, Gulf Goast, August 29 - September 2, 1985 (1991), by Peter Sparks (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Hurricane Elena, Gulf Goast, August 29 - September 2, 1985 (1991), by Peter Sparks (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (PDF files at louisiana.gov)
• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez (HTML at Michigan)

• Bolstering Critical Infrastructure Resilience After Superstorm Sandy: Lessons for New York and the Nation (Boston: Northeastern University, 2015), by Stephen E. Flynn (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• Catastrophic Coastal Storms: Hazard Mitigation and Development (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by David R. Godschalk, David J. Brower, and Timothy Beatley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catastrophic Coastal Storms: Hazard Mitigation and Development (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by David R. Godschalk, David J. Brower, and Timothy Beatley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hurricanes, Unleashing Nature's Fury: A Preparedness Guide (2007), by United States National Weather Service (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Hurricanes, Unleashing Nature's Fury: A Preparedness Guide (2003), by United States National Weather Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Origins of Japan's Modern Forests: The Case of Akita (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1985), by Conrad D. Totman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Hawaii)

• The Naked Storm (published under "Simon Eisner" pseudonym; New York: Lion Book, 1952), by C. M. Kornbluth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Tides of Barnegat, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)

• Living with Florida's Atlantic Beaches: Coastal Hazards from Amelia Island to Key West (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2004), by David M. Bush, William J. Neal, Norma J. Longo, Kenyon C. Lindeman, Deborah F. Pilkey, Luciana S. Esteves, John D. Congleton, and Orrin H. Pilkey (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Great Galveston Disaster: Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times (c1900), by Paul Lester (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• Early American Hurricanes, 1492-1870 (Boston: American Meteorological Society, c1963), by David M. Ludlum (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee (1936), by Great Plains Drought Area Committee, contrib. by Morris Llewellyn Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Boston Under Snow: Resilience Lessons for the Nation (Boston: Northeastern University, 2017), by Stephen E. Flynn (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• Horatio Lovejoy's New Year's Eve, 1863-4 (Charles City, IA: Advocate Steam Job Print, 1882) (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)

• Wind- und Wasserhosen in Europa (in German; Braunschweig: F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1917), by Alfred Wegener
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • illustrated transcription: PDF files in Germany