A Furious Sky Quotes

“And then there were the looters, the vermin who far too often are the handmaidens of tragedy.”
― Eric Jay Dolin, A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

“Most of the hurricanes in the North Atlantic originate not over the water, as some may think, but over the southern flanks of the Sahara desert.”
― Eric Jay Dolin, A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

“an ordinary hurricane releases the same amount of energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs. For a major hurricane the number is higher still.”
― Eric Jay Dolin, A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

“August 24, 1992, a tropical disturbance morphed into tropical storm Katrina”
― Eric Jay Dolin, A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes