| Description |
xi, 212 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (black and white) ; 23 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212). |
| Contents |
What used to be -- The weight of it -- What the lightning revealed -- Hit by emptiness -- Something shifted inside -- Bigness of heart -- People will return -- Overwhelmed -- So many dead -- Distributing kindness -- The long process of working through -- Something to hold onto -- The smoke of what used to be -- Trying to find normal -- Marching on -- Everybody deserves a picture -- Remembering -- The people moving forward. |
| Summary |
"In 1955 the small town of Udall, Kansas, was home to oil field workers, homemakers, and teenagers looking ahead to their futures. But on the night of May 25, an F5 tornado struck their town without warning. In three minutes the tornado destroyed most of the buildings, including the new high school. It toppled the water tower. It lifted a pickup truck, stripped off its cab, and hung the frame in a tree. By the time the tornado moved on, it had killed 82 people and injured 270 others, more than half the town's population of roughly 600 people. It remains the deadliest tornado in the history of Kansas. Jim Minick's nonfiction account, Without Warning, tells the human story of this disaster, moment by moment, from the perspectives of those who survived. His spellbinding narrative connects this history to our world today. Minick demonstrates that even if we have never experienced a tornado, we are still a people shaped and defined by weather and the events that unfold in our changing climate. Through the tragedy and hope found in this story of destruction, Without Warning tells a larger story of community, survival, and how we might find our way through the challenges of the future"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Tornadoes -- Kansas.
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Natural disasters -- Kansas -- History -- 20th century.
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Natural disasters (OCoLC)fst01033994
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Tornadoes (OCoLC)fst01152763
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Kansas (OCoLC)fst01204323
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Creative nonfiction.
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Nonfiction novels.
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| ISBN |
9781496231451 paperback |
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1496231457 paperback |
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9781496236326 electronic publication |
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9781496236333 electronic book |
| Standard No. |
40031704166 |
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