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portada The Heppner Flood
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
190
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9798896654575

The Heppner Flood

Duncan T. Fairchild (Author) · NobleTrex Press · Paperback

The Heppner Flood - Duncan T. Fairchild

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Synopsis "The Heppner Flood"

On a warm Sunday afternoon in June 1903, Heppner, Oregon, was doing what small towns do: preparing supper, visiting neighbors, getting ready for church. Then, just after five, Willow Creek rose as if the valley itself had snapped. A wall of water, mud, timber, and wreckage tore straight through town, smashing homes, bridges, and Main Street in minutes. By the time the torrent spent itself, 247 people were dead—one in five residents, gone in less than an hour. The Heppner Flood takes readers from the dry hills above town, where a thunderstorm burst out of sight, to the first strange sounds beneath the hail, to the instant when scattered warnings turned into blind panic. Here are the people who ran uphill, clung to roofs, turned back for children, spouses, and neighbors, and then faced the terrible work of calling names into the mud. The result is a true account with the velocity of a disaster thriller and the intimacy of a town obituary written in real time. Vivid, deeply researched, and grounded in the historical record, this is the story not only of how Heppner was destroyed, but of what endured after the water fell away. More than a century later, Oregon’s deadliest natural disaster still feels shockingly close. Open this book, and step into the hour that changed a town forever.

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