This comprehensive CD-ROM provides a thorough review of practical emergency plans and protective measures for surviving the horrible consequences of hurricanes: winds, floods, and storm surge. There is material from every federal agency with a role in hurricane survival:
NOAA National Weather Service National Hurricane Center Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
An enormous collection of facts and figures is contained in the thirty-seven files on this CD-ROM, with thorough coverage of hurricanes and tropical storms, including:
* U.S. Hurricane and Tropical Storm History, with extensive tracking maps, storm updates, damage reports, satellite and radar imagery, including storms in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean.
* Histories of historic storms, including Andrew, Hugo, Gordon, Gilbert, Camille, Agnes, Carol, and many others, with photos and reports of the tremendous damage caused by winds, floods, and storm surge.
* Year-end season reports and climatological records.
* Saffir-Simpson scale explanations and tracking charts.
* A comprehensive review of medical aspects of storms by the CDC.
In all, the disc has over 41,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable. (Please note that this CD-ROM is also part of the two-disc set sold as ISBN 159248235X.)
Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc makes a great reference work and educational tool for anyone interested in weather, meteorology, and storms.
