Jay Barnes
Author of North Carolina's hurricane history
About the Author
Jay Barnes, is director of the North Carolina Aquarium in Atlantic Beach
Works by Jay Barnes
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- Gender
- male
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- Works
- 6
- Members
- 83
- Popularity
- #218,811
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 19
The seventh chapter is all new. It covers Isabel (2003 which went through my hometown of Murfreesboro), the active season of 2004 (Alex, Bonnie, Charley, Frances, Gaston, Ivan, and Jeanne), Ophelia (2005), Irene (2011), and Sandy (2012).
I love the way Jay Barnes sets the stage for each storm and covers all the aftermath. So often I focus on what happened in North Carolina and how it affected me, family, and friends. With the power out and then dealing with the effects of the storm, it is easy to miss how it affected the rest of the world.
The thorough index lets me look up a location and find storms that affected it in a major way. I do sometimes have to move up to the county level, but that's fairly simple to do for people familiar with the counties of North Carolina.
Anyone interested in hurricanes and North Carolina will love this book. People who enjoy reading about these storms should find this interesting. Historians interested in North Carolina should give this a try. Meteorologists will probably find it useful. I will be getting the next edition when it comes out.… (more)