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The incredible story of a flood of near-Biblical proportions - its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America’s natural-disaster policies for the next century. The storm began March 23, 1913, with a series of tornadoes that killed 150 people and injured 400. Then the freezing rains started and the flooding began. It was the nation’s most widespread flood ever - more than 700 people died, hundreds of thousands of homes and buildings were destroyed, and millions were left homeless.

Earth Prose combines two environment-related pieces of writing. "Return to Clinch River" mixes the tale of a canoe trip down a biodiverse river with subtle undertones of concern for protecting the natural world. The "Five Stages of Climate Grief" layers five poems with narrative around the 2012 hurricance, Hurricane Sandy.

If a disaster occurred would you be prepared? Could you feed and defend your family? Do you hope for the best but want to be ready for the worst? We live in uncertain times. The threat of disaster - both man-made and natural - looms ever present. Could you depend on yourself if you had to? Could you take care of your family? This book on SHTF prepping will teach why it's important to be ready, what you need to do to get prepared, what types of items and supplies you'll need after a disaster, and offers plans for both short-term and long-term survival.

American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over 1000 miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called "natural disasters" continue to strike the Mississippi basin as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico.

The deadly hurricane of 1928 claimed 2500 lives, and the long-forgotten story of the casualties, as told in Black Cloud, continues to stir passion. Among the dead were 700 black Floridian men, women, and children who were buried in an unmarked West Palm Beach ditch during a racist recovery and rebuilding effort that conscripted the labor of blacks much like latter-day slaves.

Discussion of prepping for survival from a Christian perspective....

We live in a genuinely unique period of human history, one in which the alarmist's hackneyed warning that "the end is near!" could actually come true. The world is cluttered with increasingly powerful advanced technologies. Global warming and biodiversity loss are unchecked catastrophes that will likely push society to the brink of collapse. How are we to respond to this situation? What can we do to maximize the probability of a positive outcome for our species?

In this book we lay the foundations for the average person to start prepping and to understand the survival basics. We cover some of the more critical aspects of prepping to help expedite the probability of your survival. This book will help jump start your education in prepping and survival.

Millions of people each year find out the hard way that prepping is a necessary part of life. It can be overwhelming if you want to prep but are strapped for cash. Fortunately, there are still ways to make it work! This audiobook goes into the origins of prepping, the science behind prepping, how to create a bug out bag for when SHTF, prepping on a budget, the pros and cons of prepping, and understanding "skills versus stuff".

If you're anything like me and have a family or loved ones to protect, then you know that being prepared in a disaster situation can mean the difference between life and death. This book will go over not only why SHTF prepping is important but how to go about doing it and what food and other items you'll need not only for your short-term survival but for you long-term survival as well.

In these days of increased tension, civil unrest, and global warming, disaster preparation for the urban dweller is not something to be taken for granted. Whether you live in a high-rise apartment, or own a home in suburbia, it is critically important that you have something to help you through the first 24 to 72 hours after a disaster strikes.

This audiobook aims to provide you with more-specific information on how you can prepare for serious disasters using resources that may already be sitting in your cupboards, your attic, or your collection of junk. You will find that the humble mason jars you might be taking for granted have a lot of practical uses when it comes to disaster preparedness.

This audiobook contains proven steps and strategies on how to successfully cultivate a survival garden that will provide you with food when an apocalypse comes. This book also contains information with regard to the different types of survival gardens that you can grow. Here you will also learn which herbs and seeds are the best ones to plant in a survival garden.

With this audiobook, you will be able to learn how to cope and be ready to face such catastrophes as storms, civil unrest, and even unemployment. I particularly hope to impart with this audiobook a sense of urgency that might help you to not only ride out the current disaster but to anticipate and prepare for the next one. As you will see, being prepared doesn't mean just stockpiling food, water, and all the necessities of life.

"It's better to be safe than sorry" is a widely used phrase worldwide, and mostly everyone knows it. Despite this saying, many don't take the necessary actions to prepare for devastating accidents and disasters. As a result, when these startling emergencies arise, many individuals find themselves unequipped with the vital supplies that will help save a life.

In this audiobook, you will discover the systematic way of preparing your home for any disaster. The first step is gaining knowledge about your house, your location’s geographical profile, and your community. Being an independent family doesn't keep you away from being a part of your community. At the end of the day, coordinating with other community members help prepare you and your household. Upon knowing vital information, the next covered topic is carrying out the actual preparation steps.

On July 4, 1999, Marlin Bree was caught in the storm of the century that ripped through the boundary waters of Minnesota and across the Canadian north shores of Lake Superior. Winds on the lake were clocked at 100 miles per hour in a gale that many dubbed the "green storm" because of the unusual color of the sky. Although Bree's treasured wooden sailboat was damaged, he continued in pursuit of his goal of sailing the largest freshwater island archipelago in the world.

When an earthquake flattens New York City, the devastation is phenomenal and loss of life beyond comprehension. The world is in shock. Only the chosen few can see it. A firefighter, newspaperman, thief, engineer, bride and a priest are all strangers across the country and are all thrown together. All of them believe it is the beginning of the end. Together they work diligently to try to save humanity and stop the inevitable. But is it already too late?

Believe it or not, there are natural and effective strategies on ways to prepare for these unforeseen and unwanted catastrophes. And I give them all to you within this guide. Let's face it, if we don't have a plan for when these unforeseen situations take place then how can we expect to be ready for these disasters. Discover effective methods to be prepared when a natural disaster might strike and have a plan to execute to keep you and your family as safe as possible. The secret to your success will be how well you apply what you discover in this guide.

This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story of a people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty five thousand homes when the eye wall and powerful northeast quadrant of the hurricane swept a record thirty-foot storm surge across a seventy-five-mile stretch of unprotected Mississippi towns and cities. James Patterson Smith takes us through life and death accounts of storm day, August 29, 2005, and the precarious days of food and water shortages that followed. Along the way the narrative treats us to inspiring episodes of neighborly compassion and creative responses to the greatest natural disaster in American history