Book Review

1. A World Turned Over
Book By: Lorian Hemingway
Review By: Brent Monroe

2. “
”
Why do I stay here? I don’t know. I guess familiarity.
I guess, you know, you get used to something and
then the anxiety of it is relieved because you’re so
accustomed to it. Refuge is really nothing more
than what you can make yourself live with.
Linda Flowers, Candlestick Tornado survivor

3. Summary
• Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter
• Recounts first the 1966 Candlestick
Park Tornado
• Jackson, Mississippi

4. • Only the second F5 tornado to hit
Mississippi (first was on December 5,
1953)
• $17.9 Million USD ($130 mil USD in
2015)
• 57 Total deaths
• Longest tracked tornado in Mississippi
history

5. When?
 Occurred on March 3, 1966
 Approximately 4 pm
 Hinds, Rankin, Scott, Leake, Neshoba, Kemper, Noxubee, Pickens AL, Tuscaloosa AL

6. “
”
Why do I stay here? I don’t know. I guess familiarity.
I guess, you know, you get used to something and
then the anxiety of it is relieved because you’re so
accustomed to it. Refuge is really nothing more
than what you can make yourself live with.
Linda Flowers, Candlestick Tornado survivor

7. Response
 Acting Gov. CARROLL GARTIN ordered the state's National Guard on standby alert
 Boy Scouts were pressed into service to help direct traffic, freeing policemen for
rescue work

8. Referecnes
 Associated Press (March 8, 1966). "Wind damage put at $17.9 million". Spokane
Daily Chronicle. p. 42. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
 Associated Press (March 4, 1966). "Mississippi Counts 57 Tornado Dead". The
Tuscaloosa News. p. 1.
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (2009)Candlestick Park
Tornado Overview". National Weather Service Office in Jackson, Mississippi.
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (2011) Other Violent Tornadoes
in Mississippi History". National Weather Service Office in Jackson, Mississippi.