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Query: A gripping book with spectacular photographs

This book is gripping, thanks to its well-written descriptions of coastal storms and the spectacular photographs of storm damage. Two of the most frightening and destructive of the many storms described in the book are the Great Atlantic Hurricane of September 1944, which "was so powerful it pushed World War II off the front page" and the three-day March 1962 storm, a northeaster "more furious than any hurricane" that ever hit the New Jersey shore, a storm that "battered and bludgeoned the shore until...almost every trace of a human presence had been washed away." It happened to be raining heavily when I was reading the chapter about the latter storm; between the rain pounding on my window and the vivid descriptions by the authors (and the storm survivors) of the rising tide sweeping away houses and cutting Long Beach Island into five islands, I admit I was holding my breath in fear and excitement. A fact-filled, moving and thought-provoking book!