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Floods

Hurricane Ida flooded our office and caused enormous damage.

There is something uniquely chilling about a natural disaster - the uncontrolled, unpreventable fury of normally benign elements: a blue sky now black exploding in water and electricity ...

It’s more than just whimsy

Our hurricane-naming system evolved much the same way our baby-naming system did. Just as it’s easier to say “Jane Q.

Long-lost views of sunny, easy days at a wealthy lake resort foreshadow a terrible tragedy.

Two weeks after completing a film, in 1989 on the Johnstown Flood I received word from a woman in New London, New Hampshire that she had some photographs I might like to see.

In the hills above Johnstown, the old South Fork dam had failed. Down the Little Conemaugh came the torrent, sweeping away everything in its path

The southwestern corner of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, is high, burly mountain country with fast trout streams and miles of dark forest.

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