Description
Immersive reporting and dramatic
storytelling set you right in the middle of the horrific superstorm of
April 2011, a weather event that killed 348 people.
April 27, 2011,
marked the climax of a superstorm that saw a record 358 tornadoes rip
through twenty-one states in three days, seven hours, and eighteen
minutes. It was the deadliest day of the biggest tornado outbreak in
recorded history, which saw 348 people killed, entire neighborhoods
erased, and $11 billion in damage. The biggest of the tornadoes left
scars across the land so wide they could be seen from space. But from
the terrible destruction emerged everyday heroes, neighbors and
strangers who rescued each other from hell on earth.
With powerful
emotion and gripping detail, Cross weaves together the heart-wrenching
stories of several characters--including three college students, a
celebrity weatherman, and a team of hard-hit rescuers--to create a
nail-biting chronicle in the Tornado Alley of America. No, it's not
Oklahoma or Kansas; it's Alabama, where there are more tornado
fatalities than anywhere in the US, where the trees and hills obscure
the storms until they're bearing down upon you. For some, it's a story
of survival, and for others it's the story of their last hours.
Cross's
immersive reporting and dramatic storytelling sets you right in the
middle of the very worst hit areas of Alabama, where thousands of
ordinary people witnessed the sky falling around them. Yet from the
disaster comes a redemptive message that's just as real: In times of
trouble, the things that tear our world apart also reveal what holds us
together.