America's Deadliest Twister

The Tri-State Tornado of 1925

De: Geoff Partlow

Narrado por: Bob Goding

Duración: 4 h y 2 m

Resumen del Editor

Disaster relief as we know it did not exist when the deadliest tornado in U.S. history gouged a path from southeast Missouri through southern Illinois and into southwestern Indiana. The tri-state tornado of 1925 hugged the ground for 219 miles, generated wind speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour, and killed 695 people. Drawing on survivor interviews, public records, and newspaper archives, America's Deadliest Twister offers a detailed account of the storm, but more important, it describes life in the region at that time as well as the tornado's lasting cultural impact, especially on southern Illinois.

Author Geoff Partlow follows the storm from town to town, introducing us to the people most affected by the tornado, including the African American population of southern Illinois. Their narratives, along with the stories of the heroes who led recovery efforts in the years following, add a hometown perspective to the account of the storm itself.

In the discussion of the aftermath of the tornado, Partlow examines the lasting social and economic scars in the area, but he also looks at some of the technological firsts associated with this devastating tragedy. Partlow shows how relief efforts in the region began to change the way people throughout the nation thought about disaster relief, which led to the unified responses we are familiar with today.

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Bad narration.

Book is great. Narrator seems to believe that punctuation and inflection are myths. It is hard to tell where one sentence ends and another begins in his endless monotone drone. sometimes he will pause in the middle of a sentence instead of the end. Even the transition from one chapter to another is read as though it was one great run on sentence.

no pause

The reader didn't paused sentences much less paragraphs. It did have a lot of interesting facts.

Just facts, awful narration. Do not recommend!

The story is choppy, like news articles just strung together. The narrator was horrible - easily the worst I've ever heard. He reads in an robotic voice, with little heed to punctuation, paragraphs or chapters. The only reasons I finished this book was I reallt wanted to hear about the tornado, and it was very short. I would not recommend this audiobook at all.