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Storms

Here are entered works on storms in general. General works on cyclonic storms are entered under Cyclones. Works on strong tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans are entered under Hurricanes; those of the northwestern Pacific Ocean, under Typhoons.

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• Natural disasters
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• Storms -- Early works to 1800
• Storms -- Fiction
• Storms -- Florida
• Storms -- Texas
• Storms -- United States
• Cyclones
• Dust storms
• Tornadoes
• Winter storms

• The Storm: or, a Collection of the Most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters Which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, Both by Sea and Land (London: Printed for G. Sawbridge, 1704), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

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

• 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)

• Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don't Want You to Know (second edition, 1993), ed. by Margaret Barber and Gráinne Ryder (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Observatory Seismology: A Centennial Symposium for the Berkeley Seismographic Stations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by Joe J. Litehiser (HTML at UC Press)

• The Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake: Proceedings of a Forum (1992), by National Research Council Committee on Earthquake Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Recollections of a Fallen Sky: Velikovsky and Cultural Amnesia: Papers Presented at the University of Lethbridge, May 9 and 10, 1974, ed. by Earl R. Milton (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)

• Recollections of a Fallen Sky: Velikovsky and Cultural Amnesia: Papers Presented at the University of Lethbridge, May 9 and 10, 1974, ed. by Earl R. Milton (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)

• Healing Wounds: How the International Agricultural Research Centers of the CGIAR Help Rebuild Agriculture in Countries Affected by Conflict and Natural Disasters (c2005), by Surendra Varma and Mark Winslow
  • illustrated HTML at cgiar.org
  • PDF at cgiar.org

• The Year When Stardust Fell (Philadelphia and Toronto: J. C. Winston Co., c1958), by Raymond F. Jones, illust. by James Heugh and Alex Schomburg
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Purple Cloud, by M. P. Shiel (Gutenberg text)

• The Earthquake: A Romance of London in 1907 (London: E. Grant Richards, 1906), by W. Holt-White (at Toronto Public Library)
• The Tremendous Event (New York: Macaulay, c1922), by Maurice Leblanc, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Witness, by Margaret Johnson (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• The Red Dust (as published in Amazing Stories, January 1927), by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Mad Planet (as published in the Argosy, June 12, 1920), by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg text)

• Maelstrom (2001), by Peter Watts (PDF at rifters.com)

• The New Year's Eve Flood on Oahu, Hawaii, December 31, 1987 - January 1, 1988 (Washington: National Academy Press, 1991), by John A. Dracup, Edmond Cheng, Joanne M. Nigg, and Thomas A. Schroeder (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (c2012), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF at ipcc-wg2.gov)

• Earthquake Damage and Earthquake Insurance: Studies of a Rational Basis for Earthquake Insurance; Also Studies of Engineering Data for Earthquake-Resisting Construction (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1932), by John Ripley Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Volcanoes and Earthquakes (London: R. Bentley, 1868), by Zurcher and Margollé, trans. by Winifred James Lockyer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018), by Joanna Zylinska (HTML and video with commentary at umn.edu)
• The Hoodwinking of a Nation (pre-publication version of "Hoodwinking the Nation"), by Julian Lincoln Simon (HTML at juliansimon.com)

• Flood Flows: A Study of Frequencies and Magnitudes (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1930), by Allen Hazen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Tsunami of March 9, 1957, As Recorded at Tide Stations (US Coast and Geodetic Survey technical bulletin #6; Washington: GPO, 1959), by G. G. Salsman (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.