Ruthless Tide
Roker, Al A GRIPPING NEW HISTORY CELEBRATING THE REMARKABLE HEROES OF THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD—THE DEADLIEST FLOOD IN U.S. HISTORY—FROM NBC HOST AND LEGENDARY WEATHER AUTHORITY AL ROKERCentral Pennsylvania, May 31, 1889: After a deluge of rain—nearly a foot in less than twenty-four hours—swelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as swiftly rising waters threatened to breach the South Fork dam, built to create a private lake fo...