Mike Bilder - Author & Historian ⛈️🦺⛑️
@Chasing36and72
A different kind of ⛈️ chaser. Storm & response historian. Author of 2 forthcoming books about the 1936 Flood & Hurricane Agnes (1972). Other acct: @Bilder_CEM
We're a little over 1 yr into researching & writing the 1st installment of a 2-book series on the 1936 Flood & Hurricane Agnes (1972). Someone in the📚business advised me to create an account (separate from @Bilder_CEM) to keep ppl updated on progress by @Jacob_Feuer & I 🧵👇
A foggy view from the Duquesne Incline in #Pittsburgh a few weeks ago. The sun gave the haze and fog around the city this pinkish glow which made it look like something out of a movie behind the incline.
119 deaths means the Texas floods have surpassed Agnes to become the fifth deadliest fresh-water (rain induced) flood disaster since 1969. Hard to overstate how much this catastrophe is changing the way I see modern flood vulnerability
I have finally put together my thoughts on the enormity of Friday morning's Texas flood. Mostly it is a meditation on the historical context of such a hyper-local flood killing 104 people, something that really hasn't happened in nearly 50 years.
.@jmnese takes a closer look at the meteorological setup for the deadliest rainfall flood event to occur in the US since 1976 that unfolded in the Texas Hill Country last weekend in this edition of WxYz: youtu.be/QxqTfA1CtW4 @WPSU @pcntv @PSUEMS @psumeteo
The Central TX 2025 death toll is quickly approaching Agnes territory, as well as the “official” freshwater toll of 124 from Camille (although Jacob is correct that the upper end estimate for Camille is ~150)
I have finally put together my thoughts on the enormity of Friday morning's Texas flood. Mostly it is a meditation on the historical context of such a hyper-local flood killing 104 people, something that really hasn't happened in nearly 50 years.
Now on #Spotify! This Week In Tornado History (June 23-29)! It is time for this edition of This Week In Tornado History! A major outbreak occurred on June 23, 1944 with one of the deadliest tornadoes in US history. We share about that event and many more in today's podcast.…
Co-authored with a licensed Gettysburg Battlefield guide, it’s a blend of weather and history.
Penn State professor's new book traces weather's role in the 1863 Gettysburg campaign statecollege.com/articles/commu…
I am pretty confident of 8 USA landfalling May-June hurricanes in the early to mid 19th century in roughly a same time period. #HurricaneSeason #hurricane
Devastating Derecho: The statues of Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox stood strong as winds stronger than a CAT 1 Hurricane hammered the community of Bemidji, MN just after midnight this morning. Bemidji Regional Airport clocked winds hitting 106MPH! #MNwx
Imagine being a settler in the 1800s and having this thing just yeet itself at you in the middle of the night on an open prairie. How would you even be able to describe this in a journal?
HOLY COW look at this close up view of the Enderlin, ND tornadic storm.
Many thanks to Karen Walker of the Centre County Gazette for chatting w/ me about the project. statecollege.com/centre-county-…