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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Camille, which swept through coastal Mississippi and Louisiana in August 1969, was the storm that inspired the five-level scale currently used to predict the damage inflicted by hurricanes, and remains the only Category 5 storm—the strongest—to make landfall in modern American history. Zebrowski and Howard ground the storm's story in personal narratives, opening with the tale of a couple who fear their son has been killed when the storm hits the Mississippi coast. They interview other survivors in the region and up in Virginia, where Camille collided with another storm system, tracking the destruction and the confused response of local authorities. Zebrowski, a physicist, and Howard, a political columnist for a northern Louisiana newspaper, also focus on the role of Southern racial politics in shaping the civic response, particularly in one remote Louisiana parish. It's a serviceable recounting, with a thin layer of analysis discussing how Camille influenced the eventual creation of FEMA. Brief reference is made to Hurricane Katrina, but at this early stage, the authors can't say more than that authorities appear not to have learned from the earlier storm's effects. Photos, maps. (Dec.)
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From Booklist
Following his Last Days of St. Pierre (2002), Zebrowski collaborates with Howard to examine 1969's Hurricane Camille. Partly a narrative and partly a pondering of how people and authorities prepare for predictable risk, the work focuses on the areas devastated by the maelstrom: Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana; Mississippi's Gulf Coast; and faraway Nelson County, Virginia. As prelude, the authors recount the local living memory of hurricanes, and further set the stage with the local political and social landscape (segregation hung on in 1969). Settling in with events, they chronicle forecaster Robert Simpson's monitoring of the advancing storm, then magnify its climax with several harrowing survival stories. The authors tell of Luke Petrovich, a Plaquemines politician who found refuge in a water-treatment plant, and Ben Duckworth, a Mississipian swept inland by the storm surge. Closing with Camille's aftermath--years of reconstruction and some reform of disaster preparedness--the authors sound a pessimistic note about society's short-term memory in their sobering, able history of Camille. Gilbert Taylor
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Camille, which swept through coastal Mississippi and Louisiana in August 1969, was the storm that inspired the five-level scale currently used to predict the damage inflicted by hurricanes, and remains the only Category 5 storm—the strongest—to make landfall in modern American history. Zebrowski and Howard ground the storm's story in personal narratives, opening with the tale of a couple who fear their son has been killed when the storm hits the Mississippi coast. They interview other survivors in the region and up in Virginia, where Camille collided with another storm system, tracking the destruction and the confused response of local authorities. Zebrowski, a physicist, and Howard, a political columnist for a northern Louisiana newspaper, also focus on the role of Southern racial politics in shaping the civic response, particularly in one remote Louisiana parish. It's a serviceable recounting, with a thin layer of analysis discussing how Camille influenced the eventual creation of FEMA. Brief reference is made to Hurricane Katrina, but at this early stage, the authors can't say more than that authorities appear not to have learned from the earlier storm's effects. Photos, maps. (Dec.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Following his Last Days of St. Pierre (2002), Zebrowski collaborates with Howard to examine 1969's Hurricane Camille. Partly a narrative and partly a pondering of how people and authorities prepare for predictable risk, the work focuses on the areas devastated by the maelstrom: Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana; Mississippi's Gulf Coast; and faraway Nelson County, Virginia. As prelude, the authors recount the local living memory of hurricanes, and further set the stage with the local political and social landscape (segregation hung on in 1969). Settling in with events, they chronicle forecaster Robert Simpson's monitoring of the advancing storm, then magnify its climax with several harrowing survival stories. The authors tell of Luke Petrovich, a Plaquemines politician who found refuge in a water-treatment plant, and Ben Duckworth, a Mississipian swept inland by the storm surge. Closing with Camille's aftermath--years of reconstruction and some reform of disaster preparedness--the authors sound a pessimistic note about society's short-term memory in their sobering, able history of Camille. Gilbert Taylor
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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