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Hurricanes

Here are entered works on strong tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Cyclones

• Hurricanes -- Fiction
• Hurricanes -- Louisiana
• Hurricanes -- Mexico
• Hurricane Elena, 1985
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005
• Hurricane Sandy, 2012
• Hurricane protection

• 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 hawaiiopen.org)

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

• 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)