Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Alaska Earthquake Insurance
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Alaska Earthquake Insurance
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Considers legislation to authorize retroactive Federal insurance protection to cover damages sustained from Mar. 27, 1964 earthquake disaster in south central Alaska.
Alaska Earthquake Insurance
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance, Earthquake
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This Is Chance!
Author: Jon MooallemPublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0525509925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together “A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”—The Wall Street Journal “A beautifully wrought and profoundly joyful story of compassion and perseverance.”—BuzzFeed (Best Books of the Year) In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis—the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. But just before sundown on Good Friday, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. For four and a half minutes, the ground lurched and rolled. Streets cracked open and swallowed buildings whole. And once the shaking stopped, night fell and Anchorage went dark. The city was in disarray and sealed off from the outside world. Slowly, people switched on their transistor radios and heard a familiar woman’s voice explaining what had just happened and what to do next. Genie Chance was a part-time radio reporter and working mother who would play an unlikely role in the wake of the disaster, helping to put her fractured community back together. Her tireless broadcasts over the next three days would transform her into a legendary figure in Alaska and bring her fame worldwide—but only briefly. That Easter weekend in Anchorage, Genie and a cast of endearingly eccentric characters—from a mountaineering psychologist to the local community theater group staging Our Town—were thrown into a jumbled world they could not recognize. Together, they would make a home in it again. Drawing on thousands of pages of unpublished documents, interviews with survivors, and original broadcast recordings, This Is Chance! is the hopeful, gorgeously told story of a single catastrophic weekend and proof of our collective strength in a turbulent world. There are moments when reality instantly changes—when the life we assume is stable gets upended by pure chance. This Is Chance! is an electrifying and lavishly empathetic portrayal of one community rising above the randomness, a real-life fable of human connection withstanding chaos.
Earthquake Insurance Availability
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Commercial Fisheries Review
Author: Assateague Island National Seashore
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assateague Island National Seashore (Md. and Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1472
Book Description
The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964: Human ecology
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Alaska EarthquakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska Earthquake, Alaska, 1964
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Foreign Investment in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on International FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Investments, Foreign
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description