Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters
|
Buy Now
Category 5 - The Story of Camille - Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane (Paperback, New edition)
Loot Price: R650
Discovery Miles 6 500
|
|
Category 5 - The Story of Camille - Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane (Paperback, New edition)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
. . . 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
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.