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Echoes of Fury: The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens and the Lives It Changed Forever
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Product Description Echoes of Fury follows eight people whose lives took unexpected turns on May 18, 1980, in the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. This is a story of fury and rebirth combining adventure, suspense, heart-break, and the thrill of scientific discovery. Review Frank Parchman's story is a gripping thriller filled with enthralling science and a moving study of people. --Walla Walla (WA) Union-Bulletin This is the real inside story about what happened at Mount St. Helens--the most accurate book I've read on the subject. --Don Swanson, USGS volcanologist Compelling...dramatic...chilling.... --Seattle Post-Intelligencer From the Inside Flap After 123 years of inactivity, a swarm of earthquakes signals that America's youngest and most dangerous volcano is coming back to life. At first, no one notices. Then, two months later, all hell breaks loose. Frank Parchman tells the riveting story of terror, survival, and recovery through the prespective of eight people whose lives are overwhelmed by cataclysmic events, among them: A geologist who asks a friend to take his place at a forward observatory the day of the eruption;A badly burned logger who becomes an icon for the survivors, many of whom thought they were far from danger;Young lovers who are swept away in a massive flash flood of water, hot mud, and debris on the Toutle River;A rookie newspaper reproter who covers the story of a lifetime and shares the Pulitzer Prize;An angry woman who challenges a misconception - encouraged by politicians - that her brother and others killed around the mountain deserved blame for their own deaths. From the Back Cover Finally comes the first complete account of the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens and its dramatic after-effects on the mountain and life around it for a quarter-century. Frank Parchman tells an epic story of eight people whose lives careen into dramatic new directions and who ultimately become bonded to one another and to the mountain in the aftermath of the volcanic fury in southwest Washington state. Echoes of Fury is about natures awesone display of raw-throated power; the hearbreak and anger of survivors whose lost loved ones were largely unaware of the danger, the thrill of scientific discovery, and ultimately the renewal of both nature and the human spirit. About the Author Frank Parchman has an extensive journalism background, having worked as a staff writer, investigative reporter, and editor at a dozen daily and weekly newspapers and maganzines in California, Oregon, Washington, and Tennessee, where he was assistant city editor at the Knoxville News-Sentinal. he has won more than 75 journalism awards, including the prestigious E.W. Scripps award. The author was a public relations director at the Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Oregon when Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980. On that chatoic day adn for weeks to follow, he gained a unique perpective of the drama unfolding around him as he worked with families, hospital staff, rescuers, law enforcement officials, and the media. Parchman lives in Redmond, Washington with his family.
