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Tornado Hunter: Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth ReviewI actually checked this book out of the library this week and began giving it a read. As a disaster junkie, I try to read every tome released and I will clearly say that while interesting, this book doesn't have the great storytelling of other disaster classics like Isaac's Storm or The Perfect Storm.
Tornado Hunter follows along/behind tornado hunter Tim Samaras and his band of merry mesocyclone hunters as they crisscross the plains on the path of severe weather. Some of the stories of actual chases are quite good and there are a couple that truly are edge-of-the-seat exciting, but throughout the book, Bechtel tells the same story over and over, even using the same hackneyed phrases. He describes the same equipment and the same scenes over and over, in case you missed them the first three times. (How many times can he compare a soggy dirt road to cake batter?)
And at times his somewhat stilted storytelling jumps from place to place and year to year in a way that's hard to determine where he's going or what path he'll go down next -- much like the storms he writes about.
And while I know that it's not uncommon for an author to solicit positive reviews for his work on Amazon, the fact that one reviewer appears to be a relative (if the same last name and same hometown are any clues), one appears to be a neighbor or other local friend, and one has only reviewed one book not by this author, their reviews are perhaps a bit questionable.
Not a bad book. Some interesting stories. Some interesting meteorological discussions. But it won't be up there with the truly great books of this genre.
Tornado Hunter: Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth OverviewLike the deadly tornadoes it documents, this potent combination of high adventure and hard science is terrifyingly timely in our era of global warming and climate change. The Weather Channel, now America's most watched programming, has in recent years shown us a relentless series of hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and eruptions killing thousands, turning millions into refugees, and leaving whole cities in shocked, shattered ruins.Of nature's weapons, tornadoes are among the most unforgiving, and here's an unforgettable portrait of these storms and one extraordinary man who challenged them-and produced the first-ever photographs snatched from a rampaging twister's black heart. Tornado chaser Tim Samaras, working with master storyteller Stefan Bechtel, author of Roar of the Heavens, has created a page-turner with narrative force and scientific substance.In the first of five you-are-there accounts, Tornado Hunter opens with a moment-by-moment description of the 2003 catastrophe that engulfed Manchester, South Dakota. The authors evoke the doomed town and its people; the dark menacing funnel; and Samaras's fearless advance into the whirlwind's core to deploy the ingenious equipment he devised. They interweave the tornado chaser's passion, the fascinating science of the storms themselves, and six decades of progress in predicting and recording their onslaught-an art beholden to Samaras's own groundbreaking inventions.Tim Samaras's 2004 article in National Geographic became one of the most widely read in the magazine's history. This powerful book is destined to blast its way onto bestseller lists everywhere.
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