Select "Full text" to search only the scanned or transcribed text for items. Not all items have full text. The evidence of interest in this book manifested by my friends in and out of the state is sincerely appreciated. This has been shown in many ways, among the most con- crete of which has been their willingness to assist in the task. It has been a much bigger job than I anticipated, bigger than one can imagine who has not attempted a similar work, more especially because of the necessity for accuracy of detail and assembling of facts, figures and photographs.
I have striven to make it as accurate and complete as possible in every way, but of course the magnitude of such a disaster would require a much larger publication than this to cover all its phases adequately.
If there should appear any deviation from actual figures or records, such is uninten- tional on the part of the author, and if there should be a failure to give credit where so much credit is due it is because of the almost impossible task of gathering all the facts and mentioning each personality or organization who had so much to do with helping us during our great need. To each and every one who has so greatly assisted me in preparing this book, with contributions to its pages, with photographs, with valued suggestions, I will always be profoundly grateful, for without this help it would not have been possible to carry it to a successful conclusion.
A thunderstorm, or, loosely, any violent windstorm. Hence under the in- fluence of the supposed deviation from L. The arched squall off the west coast of Africa in which the violent wind revolves beneath a broad arch of threatening clouds, analogous to the gust that precedes any severe thunderstorm, b. A funnel-shaped cloud, like a waterspout, sand column or dust whirl, with very violent and destructive eddies and whirls of wind, progressing in a narrow path for many miles over the land.
It occurs in all parts of the Mississippi watershed. The wind is too violent to be meas- ured, and the barometric pressure falls so rapidly that wooden structures are often lifted and burst open by the air confined within them. George W. The usefulness of these dug- outs or outdoor caves has been abundantly demon- strated in open, level country, where the approach of a tornado is quite likely to be seen, especially by those who are cautious on the approach of a thunderstorm when the air has been particularly warm and oppressive.
