What Stands in a Storm by Kim Cross

What Stands in a Storm

by Kim Cross

Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller—A Perfect Storm on land—that chronicles America’s biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-day superstorm with 358 separate tornadoes touching down in twenty-one states and destroying entire towns.

April 27, 2011 was the climax of a three-day superstorm that unleashed terror from Arkansas to New York. Entire communities were flattened, whole neighborhoods erased. Tornadoes left scars across the land so wide they could be seen from space. But from terrible destruction emerged everyday heroes—neighbors and strangers who rescued each other from hell on...Read more

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5 of 5 stars

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Mother Nature is a terrifying thing. Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes are just scenes from the nightly news you never can really relate to until you have actually experienced one. You know at the beginning of this book that your heart is going to be broken - Cross achingly details the march of a EF5 tornado that took 72 lives and devastated everything in its path.

A sensitive, well written commentary on how we deal with things that we cannot conquer.


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