Pub. Date: May 12, 2015
5 stars
As someone who grew up in the town of Moore, Oklahoma, author Holly Bailey always had a fascination with storms and Tornados. Moore has the devastating distinction to have been directly hit by two massive EF5 tornados within a couple of decades of each other. It took me a little while to get into this book. The first third is a little slow as the history of Moore and the backgrounds of the forecasters, city officials and school administrations are laid out. However, once the tornado is on the ground this becomes a riveting, emotional and heartbreaking account of one town's reaction to a horrific event completely out of their control. There were emotional meteorologists doing all they could to warn the people, there were teachers throwing themselves over small children to keep them safe, and townsfolk who had already lived through the 1999 tornado who found themselves wondering why Moore was so unlucky. This was really well written and researched and had the minute by minute feel of one of Jon Krakauer's books. It effected me to the extent that I found myself casing my kid's school during pick-up in order to judge its structural soundness. I highly recommend this book and will be thinking about this one for a long time. I received an electronic ARC of this book from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
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