| #701801 in Books | 2013-08-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x6.25 x1.00l,1.08 | File type: PDF | 232 pages||15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| Spellbounding - I couldn't put it down!|By Stretch|I live in Rutland, VT and during the storm and my power out; I went across the street to my neighbor's. If it wasn't for their radio I wouldn't have known "we were trapped" in Rutland. Little did I know the "deluge" that was going on outside Rutland until a few days later.
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“A Vermonter living in a flood-ravaged area herself, Shinn has used the intervening years to research and craft the backstory of Irene as a storm, examining its meteorological background and surveying its sociological effects on the entire state and
On August 28, 2011, after pounding the Caribbean and the U.S. Eastern seaboard for more than a week, Hurricane Irene finally made landfall in New Jersey. As the storm headed into New England, it was quickly downgraded to a tropical storm. And by Sunday afternoon, national news outlets were giving postmortems on the damage. Except for some flooding in low-lying areas, New York City—Irene’s biggest target—had escaped its worst-case scenario. Story over. You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Deluge: Tropical Storm Irene, Vermont’s Flash Floods, and How One Small State Saved Itself | Peggy Shinn. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
