This book, which features photographs from award winning extreme weather photographer Jim Reed, takes a historical, scientific, and personal look at the extreme weather events that have shaped Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois for the past 150 years. Introduction: into the looking glass -- The weather puzzle -- From signal flags to doppler radar: reporting the weather -- Tornado: the king of storms -- Camanche tornado of 1860 -- From twister to blizzard in 48 hours -- 1990 tornado outbreak: live! -- Thunder, lightning & hail -- Pennies, baseballs, and golf balls: understanding hail -- Flood -- The great flood of 1965 -- From tranquil stream to raging torrent: the 1990 Duck Creek flood -- Ring of fire and water: the great flood of 1993 -- Heat wave -- The sizzling July of 1936 -- Snow, wind & bone-chilling cold: winter in the Quad Cities -- The telephone wire winter of 1936 -- Autumn’s wrath: the deadly Armistice Day storm of 1940 -- The big chill: January 1979 -- The Northern Lights:.