- Aleutian Islands Tsunami
- Description with photos of the 1946 Aleutian Islands tsunami that destroyed a lighthouse without a trace and left 165 dead and over $26 million in property damage.
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- Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters 1980-1999
- A National Climatic Data Center report containing data, images and movies about the blizzards, drought, firestorms, flooding, freezes, ice storms, hail, hurricanes and tornados of this turbulent decade.
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- Donner Party
- Offers the story, through the original logs, of the ill fated wagon train of 1846/1847 which was stranded in deep snow of the Sierra Nevada.
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- Donner Party (Additional)
- Provides background, documents, recollections and interpretations of what happened to the doomed wagon train party stuck in the blizzard the winter of 1846/47.
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- Prince William Sound Tsunami
- A narrative concerning the March 28, 1964, tsunami that took the lives of more than 122 and caused over $106 million in damage.
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- St. Francis Dam Disaster
- Offers photographs and narrative concerning the Los Angeles area catastrophic dam disaster of March 12, 1928 that killed approximately 470 and ruined Chief Engineer William Mulholland’s reputation.
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- Wellington Avalanche (1910)
- Narrative and photos concerning the avalanche of March 1, 1910, in which 96 died in two separate trains in the Cascade Mountains.
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Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley
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