Great weather info, excellent descriptions of a killer hurricane, and some suspense and drama as the weather in the Eastern Seaboard spins out of control.
I could have used a lot less "woo-woo"'s in the story, however...it just seemed an awkward choice of wording and pulled me up short each time I ran into it. ( )

Un huracán de categoría 4, con vientos de hasta 155 millas por hora, arranca techos de edificios, rompe ventanas y puertas y puede enviar inundaciones hasta el segundo piso. Se sugiere la evacuación hasta seis millas tierra adentro.
El huracán Katrina era de categoría 4 cuando tocó tierra.
El huracán Simone es de categoría 7, la tormenta más grande y fuerte registrada en la historia. Cuando llegue a la ciudad de Nueva York, los rascacielos caerán. Los subterráneos y túneles se inundarán. El Bajo Manhattan y gran parte de Queens y Brooklyn desaparecerán bajo más de diez metros de agua.
A lo largo de la costa este, los pueblos y ciudades están siendo evacuados a medida que la lluvia, impulsada por el viento, azota la costa y las marejadas ciclónicas se estrellan contra los diques. Las carreteras están llenas de automovilistas que huyen, cuyos coches están repletos de todas las pertenencias personales que se pueden meter, además de familiares, amigos y queridas mascotas. Un gran desastre natural se está gestando en el Atlántico.
Excepto que Simone no es natural. Ella es el producto de la ciencia meteorológica que maneja el multimillonario Carter Thompson como parte de una venganza personal contra el presidente de los EE.UU., Winslow Benson. Una vez, Carter quiso traer lluvia al desierto y alimentar a los pueblos hambrientos del planeta. Ahora quiere mostrarle a Benson, y al resto del mundo, cuán poderosos pueden ser el viento y el agua.
Si la tecnología creó a Simone, quizás la tecnología pueda detenerla. Depende de Kate Sherman, una vez miembro del equipo meteorológico de Carter; y Jake Baxter, un meteorólogo de la CIA, para intentarlo, usando un arma secreta de la Marina de los EE.UU.

A bit disappointing. I thought it was going to be about a huge hurricane, which it is, like in a disaster movie only to find it is about a wealthy person, an expert on meteorology, manipulating the weather out of revenge and personal ambition against the President of the US. To much weather-speak for me and not enough suspense and danger. Almost was about to stop reading it but I have this thing about me that once I start a book, however it is, I'm going to finish it. ( )

I thought it was an interesting book. Granted it is fiction, hopefully!!, it does make me wonder about what WOULD happen to NYC in case of a major hurricane.

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3.5 stars

A meteorologist, Carter, has been doing secret research for years to try to manipulate the weather... and he has succeeded. When he decides to brew up a storm – the biggest one ever seen, really – he wants it to end up in New York City.

It wasn't what I expected. I expected the storm to hit and the book to be about that. So... it was much slower than I was hoping. Most of the book was actually the build up to the storm and trying to stop it, not really the storm itself. That being said, it did pick up in the last quarter of the book or so. However, it just didn't live up to what I'd hoped, although apparently, I simply had a wrong idea of what the book was. It also took longer to read than I'd anticipated, but that may just be because I was busier then normal as I read it. ( )