Crowley County Combined Library

The city of Galveston, Texas, was booming. Perched on an island off the southern coast of Texas, Galveston had been founded in the 1830s. By 1900, it was Texas's richest and most important city. Boats loaded up with American cotton and wheat steamed from Galveston to countries around the world. Arriving ships were crowded with immigrants. The streets, paved with crushed oyster shells, sparkled like they'd been sprinkled with diamonds. True, this...

The magic school bus changes into a hot-air balloon and then an airplane as Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip into the eye of a hurricane for a lesson in meteorology

Tells how hurricanes form, how scientists study them, and how they have affected the United States throughout this century.

Observational information from approximately 100 flight missions flown into twenty-one hurricanes on forty-one storm days over a thirteen year period by aircraft of the NOAA's Research Flight Facility is used to present a unified view of the structure, dynamics, and variability of the hurricane's inner core region.

"Excite early readers about science and weather with a low-level search-and-find reader about hurricanes"--

Hurricane spawned tornadoes are most frequent at the time when hurricanes initially cross land and undergo rapid filling. This paper presents data composite information on all available rawinsonde and pibal reports surrounding this type of tornado genesis in the United States and Japan.

"Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island ... The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's and an author of thrillers. But the nature of Nelson's injuries...

Discusses the effect of Hurricane Stan on indigent and disaster ridden Guatemala.