A good account of events. points by county. There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Their cumulative paths covered 2,584 miles. Eleven other structures, all homes and trailers, sustained damage. Tornado touchdown and liftoff coordinates were recorded with only 2 digits of decimal precision (i.e. The dates April 3-4, 1974, will live in infamy as nearly 150 tornadoes ripped through 13 states. in the tornado forum indicating why you belive the path to be incorrect. Having numbers were assigned in the order the tornado occurred, but that is not always the case. If you have a high tolerance for being reminded that life is unfair ,and random proceed into the book confident that you will most likely not get bored ,and feel free to skip portions if you do since this is a book that can be read in sections and while missing the larger plot will still provide insight and for many entertainment.
As a Also, there are a couple of chapters of completely unrelated material that has nothing to do with the topic. It's OK to come right out and have an opinion, just don't keep sliding it in snidely. I loved hearing the in depth stories of families that were impacted by these events, often with tragic results.
A tornado rated as F0 is the least damaging, while an F5 is the most damaging.- As of February 1, 2007, the Enhanced Fujita Scale was adopted. It damaged or destroyed many barns, garages, other structures, and a, A brief touchdown caused minimal damage to a property. I would reccamend this book to any one who likes tornadoes and the weather and want to learn more about it. This book is about mark livine as a kid growing up where tornadoes are really common but this book talks about the huge F5 tornado. He very much relies on the details of the event being compelling in and of themself - there's little he adds by virtue of his writing style or organization. This series of storms was closly studied by Dr. Ted Fujita. The tornado wrecked a. But still, overall, a good book and a valuable recording of a historical event. In those days tornados and warnings were much more scary because we didn't have all the advance warning that we have these days. But I can't criticize Levine's narrative, because he puts you vividly at the scene, experiencing the uncanny dread of a tornado's approach and the chaos of its aftermath. location depicted under the "path" should not be inferred. Tornadoes may not have been in contact with the ground for the entire path as depicted on the map. Fortunately my immediate family did not move there until 1976, but I grew up in the shadow of this terrible storm as my great aunt and great uncle and cousins were seriously injured during the course of these events when their house in East Limestone was demolished with them in it. In the entirety of the 1960s, there were 9 tornados in the US that qualified as an F5 on the Fujita scale. The tornado leveled sixteen residences, thirteen of which were trailers.
Although paths are drawn as straight lines between any two sets of coordinates, the tornado may have A short-lived tornado struck a manufacturing plant, causing substantial damage to roofs and mobile structures. no one narrative was allowed to get told--instead they were cut up into bight-sized chunks and strung out through the whole book--really cut the thunder (excuse the pun).
A historical look at the Super Outbreak of tornadoes that hit the south/mid-west on April 3, 1974 as seen through the eyes of those living in Limestone County, Alabama. The first part of the book gives us the background of the people and cultural context (Nixon, streaking, Hank Aaron), tornado science, and the second half has us in the tornadoes--an F5 and F4, and that part is vivid and thrilling and horrible, with just the right level of honest descriptions of the horror, blood, guts, and of the mental health cost to the survivors in the short and long term. Levine's strength is definitely the human element: while the personal narratives are gripping, F5 generally lacks comprehensive scientific explanations and details for the layman. Never going into intricate detail but giving enough to give you a good idea while keeping the names and places easy to follow.
Nothing, of course, could replace the value of the personal losses of so many people. This index number is not a part of the official historical tornado archive.
Mark Levine examines this phenomenon in the context of a single, historic night, bringing the devastation vibrantly to life through the stories of the people who lived through it. Much of that could be jettisoned in favor of focusing on the narrative of events that evening.
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