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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795641903321

Autore

Perkiss Abigail <1981->

Titolo

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's forgotten shore / / Abigail Perkiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-5017-6433-0

1-5017-6432-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

551.552

Soggetti

Hurricanes

New Jersey Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frankenstorm -- Please, Sandy, no more -- Everything is gone -- You can't wash away hope -- A model of disaster preparedness -- "There's no such thing as a natural disaster" -- Epilogue: New Jersey strong.

Sommario/riassunto

"Drawing on nearly seventy oral histories conducted following Hurricane Sandy, this book documents the uneven recovery of the storm along New Jersey's Bayshore: the 115 square miles of coastline from Sandy Hook at the lip of the Atlantic Ocean to South Amboy at the mouth of the Raritan River, New Jersey's forgotten shore"--