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Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496231451)
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x2023 Martin Kansas History Book Award
2024 Society of Midland Authors Award Honoree for history In 1955 the small town of Udall, Kansas, was home to oil field workers, homemakers, and teenagers looking ahead to their futures. But on the night of May 25, an F5 tornado struck their town without warning. In three minutes the tornado destroyed most of the buildings, including the new high school. It toppled the water tower. It lifted a pickup truck, stripped off its cab, and hung the frame in a tree. By the time the tornado moved on, it had killed 82 people and injured 270 others, more than half the town's population of roughly 600 people. It remains the deadliest tornado in the history of Kansas. Jim Minick's nonfiction account, Without Warning, tells the human story of this disaster, moment by moment, from the perspectives of those who survived. His spellbinding narrative connects this history to our world today. Minick demonstrates that even if we have never experienced a tornado, we are still a people shaped and defined by weather and the events that unfold in our changing climate. Through the tragedy and hope found in this story of destruction, Without Warning tells a larger story of community, survival, and how we might find our way through the challenges of the future.
Author: Jim Minick
ISBN-10: 1496231457
ISBN-13: 9781496231451
Publisher: Bison Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2023
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.66h x 5.67w x 0.24d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2023
2024 Society of Midland Authors Award Honoree for history In 1955 the small town of Udall, Kansas, was home to oil field workers, homemakers, and teenagers looking ahead to their futures. But on the night of May 25, an F5 tornado struck their town without warning. In three minutes the tornado destroyed most of the buildings, including the new high school. It toppled the water tower. It lifted a pickup truck, stripped off its cab, and hung the frame in a tree. By the time the tornado moved on, it had killed 82 people and injured 270 others, more than half the town's population of roughly 600 people. It remains the deadliest tornado in the history of Kansas. Jim Minick's nonfiction account, Without Warning, tells the human story of this disaster, moment by moment, from the perspectives of those who survived. His spellbinding narrative connects this history to our world today. Minick demonstrates that even if we have never experienced a tornado, we are still a people shaped and defined by weather and the events that unfold in our changing climate. Through the tragedy and hope found in this story of destruction, Without Warning tells a larger story of community, survival, and how we might find our way through the challenges of the future.
Author: Jim Minick
ISBN-10: 1496231457
ISBN-13: 9781496231451
Publisher: Bison Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2023
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.66h x 5.67w x 0.24d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2023
By Jim Minick
xJim Minick is the author or editor of seven books, including the award-winning Fire Is Your Water and The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Poets and Writers, Oxford American, Orion, and Shenandoah.
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