Hurricane Pathfinder: A Guide to the Literature
This guide will introduce some of the titles available in the LRC on Hurricanes. The various types of library materials useful in research are listed along with some examples of each type. This guide is not a comprehensive listing of sources, but is intended to be a starting point from which you can begin your research.
Feature topic - Hurricanes and fire service operations
- Lessons Learned from hurricanes: hurricanes teach valuable lessons & shape future preplans: Article
- Emergency response to Hurricane Katrina: Citation
- Temporary hurricane shutters and firefighting operations.: Citation and link to full article
- A new hurricane chapter for US&R response?: Citation and link to full article
- Previous lessons aid Galveston's response to Hurricane Ike. Citation and link to full article
- Impact of Hurricane Ike on the call volumes of Houston Fire Department emergency medical services Citation
- New Orleans Fire Department hazmat response to Katrina. Citation
- Disasters mastered: Hurricane Wilma and the Plantation Florida Fire Department Citation and link to full article
- New Orleans Fire Department operations. Citation and link to full article
- East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US&R operations. Article
- The evacuation of New Orleans after the levees broke. Article
- Rising above: tactical water-rescue teams take to the sky in New Orleans. Article
- Aftermath afterglow: lessons from Katrina response. Citation and link to full article
- Lessons from Katrina with the New Orleans District Fire Chief - Item description | Transcript |
General Books 
- New books in 2012 on hurricane topics
- Recent hurricane-related books from 2011
- The 1938 hurricane along New England's coast - Item Description
- Encyclopedia of hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones - Item Description
- The ravaging tide: strange weather, future Katrinas, and the coming death of America's coastal cities - Item Description
- Path of destruction: the devastation of New Orleans and the coming age of superstorms - Item Description
- Isaac's storm: a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history - Item Description
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Magazine Articles
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- Recent 2012 articles in hurricane-related topics
- The new era of megacatastrophes: how can the industry adjust to this new reality? - Item Description
- Mega-disasters and federalism: the quest for high-performance federalism - Item Description
- Evolving need for alternative triage management in public health emergencies: a Hurricane Katrina case study. - Item Description
- Brokerage roles in disaster response: organisational mediation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. - Item Description
- The clearinghouse concept: a model for geospatial data centralization and dissemination in a disaster. - Item Description
- Financial and social circumstances in the incidence and course of PTSD in Mississippi during the first two years after Hurricane Katrina. - Item Description
- Incident command system as a response model within emergency operation centers during Hurricane Rita. - Item Description
- Trial of a survey instrument to establish the hurricane preparedness of and medical impact on a vulnerable, older population. - Item Description
- Hurricane Katrina and lessons learned utilization: important findings for the emergency management community. - Item Description
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Online reports/documents/guides
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- Tropical cyclones : a preparedness guide (2012) - citation and full report
- How risk perceptions influence evacuations from hurricanes (2011) - citation and full report
- Increasing vulnerability to hurricanes: global warming's wake-up call for the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts - Full report - PDF
- Hurricane evacuation time estimates for the Texas Gulf Coast - Full report - PDF
- Are you ready? A preparedness guide for hurricanes - Full report - PDF
- Building a safe port in the storm: private vs. public choices in hurricane mitigation - Full report - PDF
- The Groundhog Day Florida tornadoes: a case study of high-vulnerability tornadoes - Full report - PDF
- GulfGov reports: the role of community rebuilding plans in the hurricane recovery-Full report - PDF
- A logistical response to assist in answering the call of defense support to civilian authorities in disaster response- Full report - PDF
- The deadliest, costliest, and most intense United States hurricanes from 1900 to 2000 - Full report - PDF
- The emergency management response to Hurricane Katrina: as told by the first responders - a case study of what went wrong and recommendations for the future - Full report - PDF
- Assessing the impact of Hurricane Katrina on persons with disabilities - Full report - PDF
- An assessment of the personal and emotional barriers to effective disaster response on the part of healthcare professionals - Full report - PDF
Multimedia Resources
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- Hurricanes: deadly wind, deadly rain - Item Description
- The Katrina experience : the power of culture to heal - Item Description
- Hurricane Katrina - the storm that drowned a city - Item Description
- Big easy to big empty - Item description
- Katrina lessons learned - Item Description
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