Description: Great Storms of the Chesapeake, Maryland, Disaster, Paperback Join author David Healey as he keeps an eye to the red horizon and chronicles the most remarkable storms to churn the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.Even before John Smith's crew weathered its first squall, the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries had been ravaged by every type of storm imaginable. A 1769 hurricane altered the course of history, demolishing the shipping channels of Charlestown and making Baltimore the dominant port. A once-in-five-hundred-years storm, Tropical Storm Agnes, left more than seventy people dead and devastated the ecology of the bay. Before the blizzards of 2009 and 2010, the snowfall record was held by the combination of the Great Eastern Blizzard of 1899, which blew the water out of the bay, and the Great White Hurricane, which stranded the oyster fleet of Baltimore in feet of ice.
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MPN: 9781609494049
Book Title: Great Storms of the Chesapeake
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.4in
Item Width: 6in
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Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Weather, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Natural Disasters, Subjects & Themes / Historical
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Photography, Nature, History
Item Weight: 0.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 160 Pages