Rumble the ground and stir up the sea, every now and again, as if Alaskans didn’t have enough to contend with from mother nature, earthquakes do that under them. They are relatively used to it. During the last few years Chris and I have worked on Far North History, traveled to the region twice and …
Tag Archives: Disaster
North Country Lessons
North country lessons sometimes came to the Corps the hard way. In May the North Country taught the Corps that what they didn’t know posed difficult problems. What they didn’t know they didn’t know could lead to catastrophe. Link to another story “Muskeg Flats” On April 31 the 341st had been together less than two …
Explosion in Dawson Creek
Explosion in Dawson Creek? A year or so ago I posted about Dawson Creek, British Columbia, a tightly knit little community, isolated from the rest of the world by distance and geography and weather. The community had no idea that WWII had put them center stage in the war effort. The invasion of the US …
Liquified Soil
Liquified soil? Tectonic plates? On Good Friday afternoon people in Valdez, Alaska didn’t think about such things, few even knew they existed. People in Valdez thought about dinner. Then came a crunching and a grinding noise and the ground around and under them suddenly rolled and heaved. Great cracks appeared and water spurted up through …
The Couple Lives Through an Explosion in Dawson Creek
The couple, Lucky Donald Hall and his new wife, Zellma, moved into an apartment in Dawson Creek—a one bedroom, furnished with a bed and a footlocker. The lovebirds lived there very happily until spring. That, of course, means the spring of 1943, so the couple got to endure the great Dawson Creek explosion and …
Continue reading “The Couple Lives Through an Explosion in Dawson Creek”