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Foreword Bernadette Woods 7
Preface 9
Part I The 1600s and 1700s
New World Tempests: Witches, Hurry-Canes and Legendary Storms 15
George Washington's Storm: The Great Chesapeake Bay Hurricane of 1788 25
Baltimore versus Charlestown: The Hurricane that Sealed a Town's Fate 28
Part II The 1800s
Fire and Nature's Fury during the War of 1812 35
The Great Ice Bridge of 1852 43
Flash Flood on the Patapsco 50
Tempting Fate: The Great Gale of 1878 and the Sinking of Express 54
Keepers of the Light and Sentinels in the Storm 65
Snowbound: The Great Blizzards of 1888 and 1899 74
How Curious: Hail, Lightning and the Heyday of the Maryland Weather Service 82
Part III The 1900s and Beyond
The Once-in-Five-Hundred-Years Storm: Tropical Storm Agnes 91
To Hell and Back Again with Hurricane Hazel 100
The Day the Marvel Went Down 104
City on the Sand: The Legacy of Storms in Ocean City 111
In the Deep Midwinter: Snow, Ice and Tragedy on the Chesapeake 118
Isabel Surges into Chesapeake 125
Goodnight, Irene 130
The Great Derecho of 2012 134
A Perilous Past, a Stormy Future 136
Weather Signs and Record Weather Extremes 143
Notes on the Sources 147
Index 155
About the Author 159
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