Bruce Kemp

Weather Bomb 1913 Bruce Kemp

On the night of November 9, in 1913, the greatest hurricane ever to sweep the Great Lakes roared across the fresh water seas sinking 12 big ships and killing more than 260 people. For the first time, author Bruce Kemp has pulled together a compelling tale of the storm with interviews of survivors, state-of-the-art meteorological computer modelling, the opinions of 21st century Great Lakes captains and painstaking research through the newspapers of the day and government archives. Join him on his journey to find answers as to how this happened and whether it could occur again.