Roker’s story is both a good yarn and a morality tale about how the powerful can avoid blame for problems caused by their privilege. Run For Your Lives by David McCullough, American.
He also tells the stories of locals-including Gertrude Quinn, a child who rode out the catastrophe on a floating mattress, and Victor Heiser, a teenager who helped try to save others from postflooding fires-and connects the incident to larger questions: “Sometimes,” he writes, “people do things to change the natural situation in ways that, regardless of intention, create human responsibility.” The wealthy members of the resort (among them Andrew Carnegie) didn’t mean to hurt anyone, but caused the destruction through negligence, for which they were not held legally accountable. Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood.
Roker, with a weatherman’s eye, describes the formation of the unprecedented rainstorms that led to the flooding and the “monster unchained” that was the flood itself. Buy Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, Americas Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster By Al Roker. In the Allegheny Mountains, a poorly engineered dam holding back a lake created for an exclusive summer resort gave way on May 31, 1889, sending 20 million tons of debris-choked water hurtling into the town. Listen to Ruthless Tide The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, Americas Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster by Al Roker available from Rakuten Kobo. TV meteorologist Roker ( The Storm of the Century) revisits the Johnstown Flood, the 19th-century disaster that destroyed a Pennsylvania town, killed thousands, and raised questions of privilege and liability that still resonate.
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