Category 5 The Story of Camille, Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane

Name: Category 5 The Story of Camille, Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane
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ISBN: 9780472115259

ISBN-10: 0472115251

ISBN-13: 9780472115259

Edition: 2005

Authors: Judith A. Howard, Ernest Zebrowski, Ernest Zebrowski

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". . . the authors sound a pessimistic note about society's short-term memory in their sobering, able history of Camille" --Booklist "This highly readable account aimed at a general audience excels at telling the plight of the victims and how local political authorities reacted. The saddest lesson is how little the public and the government learned from Camille. Highly recommended for all public libraries, especially those on the Gulf and East coasts." —Library Journal online As the unsettled social and political weather of summer 1969 played itself out amid the heat of antiwar marches and the battle for civil rights, three regions of the rural South were devastated by the horrifying… force of Category 5 Hurricane Camille. Camille's nearly 200 mile per hour winds and 28-foot storm surge swept away thousands of homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Twenty-four oceangoing ships sank or were beached; six offshore drilling platforms collapsed; 198 people drowned. Two days later, Camille dropped 108 billion tons of moisture drawn from the Gulf onto the rural communities of Nelson County, Virginia-nearly three feet of rain in 24 hours. Mountainsides were washed away; quiet brooks became raging torrents; homes and whole communities were simply washed off the face of the earth. In this gripping account, Ernest Zebrowski and Judith Howard tell the heroic story of America's forgotten rural underclass coping with immense adversity and inconceivable tragedy. Category 5 shows, through the riveting stories of Camille's victims and survivors, the disproportionate impact of natural disasters on the nation's poorest communities. It is, ultimately, a story of the lessons learned-and, in some cases, tragically unlearned-from that storm: hard lessons that were driven home once again in the awful wake of Hurricane Katrina. "Emergency responses to Katrina were uncoordinated, slow, and--at least in the early days--woefully inadequate. Politicians argued about whether there had been one disaster or two, as if that mattered. And before the last survivors were even evacuated, a flurry of finger-pointing had begun. The question most neglected was: What is the shelf life of a historical lesson?" Ernest Zebrowski is founder of the doctoral program in science and math education at Southern University, a historically black university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University's Pennsylvania College of Technology. His previous books include Perils of a Restless Planet: Scientific Perspectives on Natural Disasters. Judith Howard earned her Ph.D. in clinical social work from UCLA, and writes a regular political column for the Ruston, Louisiana, Morning Paper. "Category 5 examines with sensitivity the overwhelming challenges presented by the human and physical impacts from a catastrophic disaster and the value of emergency management to sound decisions and sustainability." --John C. Pine, Chair, Department of Geography & Anthropology and Director of Disaster Science & Management, Louisiana State University

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 11/21/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Ernest Zebrowski, St. George Island, Florida, is a former physics professor who taught in Louisiana for seven years and has explored most of the nooks and crannies of that state while conducting the research for this and previous books. He is the author of "Global Climate Change"; "Category 5, The Story of Camille"; and "The Last Days of St. Pierre".




Grim News



Of Love and Life



Bayou Country



The Birdsfoot Peninsula



Storm Warnings



On the Coast



Exodus



Troubled Waters



Angry Seas



Dawn



Rubble



Deluge



A County Divided



Reconnecting



Outsiders



A Knotty Legacy


Epilogue


Appendix


Notes on Sources


Bibliography


Index