My Family and the Flood

Reading this makes me so sad and reminded me of a book I read years ago: Hiroshima by John Hersey - about the first-person narrative account of survivors who witnessed the impact of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima that morning.

Reading this account made me think of a paper I read in grad school about the Mann Gulch fire and how quickly one’s ability to make sense of the situation unravels.

https://www.cs.unibo.it/~ruffino/Letture%20TDPC/K.%20Weick%2...

It’s a really tough read regardless, but if you’ve got young kids (or nieces/nephews), it’s downright brutal.

I wonder how frequently that river (and the rest of the world) will experience once-in-a-hundred-year weather events from now on.

Reminds me a bit of A Marker on the Side of The Boat by Boa Ninh from Night, Again.

There’s a bit of horrifying tension, and you hope everyone’s ok. No matter how unlikely.

Well, that was no fun to read. I wonder if my house would survive a flood as well as it would an earthquake.

Absolutely devastating.

This is the most gripping thing I've ever read