"Washington Disasters" By Rob & Natalie McNair-Huff

Title: Washington Disasters: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival
Authors: Rob & Natalie McNair-Huff
Published Year: 2006
Pages: 193


Here's a fun book based on incidents that have happened right in my own backyard over the years. Set in chronological order, the authors take the reader through 22 different disasters that have taken place in Washington state between the years of 1700 and 2001. If you are not a Washington native or do not know anything about the geography the area, don't fret, the authors have even included a map at the beginning showing where each event took place. As you are reading about the events you can always glance back to find out what area in the state they are talking about. The majority of the events take place in western Washington, which is more populated that eastern Washington (at least this is what I have observed and been told, I haven't personally done any research on that), and so being from western Washington myself I found it simply to identify the areas in which the events were taking place.

Here are the events that are included in the book (and yes I left them in the order from oldest to most recent as the book does also):

• The Great Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake
• The Columbia River Bar
• The Wreck of the Pacific
• The Great Seattle Fire
• The Great Spokane Falls Fire
• The Conconully Flood
• The Carbonado Mine Explosion
• The Tacome Trolley Disaster
• The Yacolt Burn
• The Sinking of the SS Clallam
• The SS Dix Collision
• The Wellington Railway Disaster
• Western Washington Windstorm
• The Boeing Field Air Disaster
• The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
• Mount Rainier Plane Crash
• The Puget Sound Earthquakes
• The Columbus Day Storm
• The Mount St. Helens Eruption
• The Tyee Creek Fire
• The Nisqually Earthquake
• The Thirtymile Fire