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A perfect storm is a meteorological event aggravated by a rare combination of circumstances. [1] The term is used by analogy to an unusually severe storm that results from a rare combination of meteorological phenomena. Before the early 1990s, the phrases "storm of the century" or "perfect storm" were generally used to describe unusually large ...
The 1991 Perfect Storm, also known as The No-Name Storm (especially in the years immediately after it took place) [1] and the Halloween Gale/Storm, was a damaging and deadly nor'easter in October 1991.
An illustrated nonfiction book about the disaster for middle-school-age youth, The Wreck of the Andrea Gail: Three Days of a Perfect Storm by Gillian Houghton, was published in 2003. [9] A model of Andrea Gail built by Paul Gran is on display at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester. [10]
Case's use of the term perfect would go on to serve as inspiration for author Sebastian Junger, who wrote a critically acclaimed 1997 novel about the storm, detailing the tragic fate of the An ...
Famed German writer-director Wolfgang Petersen, best known for his films Das Boot, The Perfect Storm, In the Line of Fire and Air Force One, has died. He was 81.The filmmaker died Friday at his ...
Greenlaw was the captain of the Hannah Boden in October 1991 when Andrea Gail sank in the Atlantic in the 1991 Perfect Storm.Greenlaw's efforts to warn the Andrea Gail about the impending storm were portrayed in Sebastian Junger's 1997 book The Perfect Storm and in the movie version, in which she was played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
Still, he called his experience filming The Perfect Storm "amazing." "It was kind of centered around this tragic event," Wahlberg said, referring to the film’s focus on the Andrea Gail fishing ...
A catastrophic storm, which dropped over 27 inches (69 cm) of snow in areas of New England, killing a total of 100 people, mainly people trapped in their cars on metropolitan Boston's inner beltway and in Rhode Island. 1991 Perfect Storm (the "Perfect Storm," combined Nor'easter/hurricane) October 28 – November 2, 1991