Great Storms of the Chesapeake Great Storms of the Chesapeake

Great Storms of the Chesapeake

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Publisher Description

Discover the hurricanes, blizzards, and historic floods that have shaped the history 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. 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.
 
Includes photos and illustrations

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2014
June 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
177
Pages
PUBLISHER
Arcadia Publishing
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
4.5
MB
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