As Crescenta Valley residents gathered to ring in the 1934 New Year, a cloudburst broke over Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains, unleashing a deluge on mountainsides denuded by recent fires. A roaring wall of rocks, mud and water crashed down the canyons, uprooting trees, tossing boulders and automobiles like toys and carving a path of destruction. Using painstaking research and heart-rending firsthand accounts, historian Art Cobery paints a picture of survival and redemption in the face of natural disaster, including the heroic efforts of eleven-year-old Marcie Warfield to save her f... Read More
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As Crescenta Valley residents gathered to ring in the 1934 New Year, a cloudburst broke over Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains, unleashing a deluge on mountainsides denuded by recent fires. A roaring wall of rocks, mud and water crashed down the canyons, uprooting trees, tossing boulders and automobiles like toys and carving a path of destruction. Using painstaking research and heart-rending firsthand accounts, historian Art Cobery paints a picture of survival and redemption in the face of natural disaster, including the heroic efforts of eleven-year-old Marcie Warfield to save her f... Read More
As Crescenta Valley residents gathered to ring in the 1934 New Year, a cloudburst broke over Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains, unleashing a deluge on mountainsides denuded by recent fires. A roaring wall of rocks, mud and water crashed down the canyons, uprooting trees, tossing boulders and automobiles like toys and carving a path of destruction. Using painstaking research and heart-rending firsthand accounts, historian Art Cobery paints a picture of survival and redemption in the face of natural disaster, including the heroic efforts of eleven-year-old Marcie Warfield to save her father and younger brother, the devastating debris flow that claimed the lives of refugees and aid workers at the American Legion Hall and the selfless acts of neighbors caught in the storm of events.
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Pages: 160
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: The History Press
Series: Disaster
Publication Date: 16th October 2012
State: California
Illustration Note: 100% Mono
ISBN: 9781609494490
Format: Paperback
BISACs: HISTORY / United States / General HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Author Bio
MIKE LAWLER is considered the go-to guy for the weirder aspects of local history. He has a natural affinity for the dark side of local heros and sees the twist in each local legend. Despite knowing where the bodies are buried, he loves the Crescenta Valley and its surprisingly weird history. With the help of the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley, he compiles these odd facts from the past in several books and a weekly newspaper column. Mike has lived here all his life and plans to stay indefinitely. Who knows? Perhaps even after he dies.
Art Cobery is a retired high school history teacher and a founding member of the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley. Mike Lawler is the President of the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley. He produces a weekly Treasures of the Valley"? column and writes captions for a weekly photo feature "Crescenta Valley Then and Now"? in the Crescenta Valley Weekly. Pam Lawler is a third generation Glendalian, who grew up with the stories of the flood as seen by her mother in 1934."
As Crescenta Valley residents gathered to ring in the 1934 New Year, a cloudburst broke over Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains, unleashing a deluge on mountainsides denuded by recent fires. A roaring wall of rocks, mud and water crashed down the canyons, uprooting trees, tossing boulders and automobiles like toys and carving a path of destruction. Using painstaking research and heart-rending firsthand accounts, historian Art Cobery paints a picture of survival and redemption in the face of natural disaster, including the heroic efforts of eleven-year-old Marcie Warfield to save her father and younger brother, the devastating debris flow that claimed the lives of refugees and aid workers at the American Legion Hall and the selfless acts of neighbors caught in the storm of events.
Pages: 160
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: The History Press
Series: Disaster
Publication Date: 16th October 2012
State: California
Illustrations Note: 100% Mono
ISBN: 9781609494490
Format: Paperback
BISACs: HISTORY / United States / General HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
MIKE LAWLER is considered the go-to guy for the weirder aspects of local history. He has a natural affinity for the dark side of local heros and sees the twist in each local legend. Despite knowing where the bodies are buried, he loves the Crescenta Valley and its surprisingly weird history. With the help of the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley, he compiles these odd facts from the past in several books and a weekly newspaper column. Mike has lived here all his life and plans to stay indefinitely. Who knows? Perhaps even after he dies.
Art Cobery is a retired high school history teacher and a founding member of the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley. Mike Lawler is the President of the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley. He produces a weekly Treasures of the Valley"? column and writes captions for a weekly photo feature "Crescenta Valley Then and Now"? in the Crescenta Valley Weekly. Pam Lawler is a third generation Glendalian, who grew up with the stories of the flood as seen by her mother in 1934."
