“Show-Me… Nature’s Wrath”
If nasty weather counted as a criminal offense, then the number of felonies committed in the Missouri region would be quite simply mind-boggling. Crimes from the skies would result in a rap sheet beyond the ability of mere mortal meteorologists to compile – and the antics of
Jesse James and his outlaw band would soon be forgotten.
Enter the pages of “Show-Me… Nature’s Wrath” and you will soon find yourself experiencing the horrors of destruction wrought by freak hail storms and fatal lightning bolts. This weather compendium is packed with tales of supercell tornadoes smashing into towns large and small – from as far back as 1880 and as recently as yesterday. Also included are the alternating calamities of drought and flood, as well as the blizzards and ice storms ushered into Missouri by winter’s winds of Thor.
With prose accounts by journalist Don Corrigan, and with detailed photo illustrations and newspaper front pages recalling the worst that weather has to offer, “Show-Me… Nature’s Wrath” is at once a historic chronicle of the forces of nature and a prized keepsake. With images and lyrical descriptions of dozens of incredible weather events in the Show-Me-State and adjacent areas, this is literally a book for all seasons.
Weather watchers who revel in what winter can bring will enjoy the stories of great blizzards that buried the Ozarks and brought major metropolises like St. Louis and Kansas City to a halt. Missouri’s great spring floods and withering summer heat waves have been an object of fascination for poets, prose mongers and artists such as Thomas Hart Benton. And then there are those terrifying funnel clouds which can drop out of a menacing Missouri sky any season of the year. It’s all here in “Show-Me… Nature’s Wrath.”
You don’t have to be a climatologist to get a thrill out of the thunder and lightning in “Show-Me… Nature’s Wrath.” This book is a great classroom book for youngsters studying weather, as well as a unique armchair book for oldsters trying to recall the details of the storm of their lives. To paraphrase Missouri’s Mark Twain, this is a great book for those who don’t quite know what to do about the weather, but who sure enjoy talking about it. In short, it’s for everybody.
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