[rlmorel]

No kidding. I read the book...crazy. Crazy. That conductor on the train, racing ahead of the flood, blowing his whistle...crazy!

[ConservativeMind]

I read that in a Reader’s Digest book.

It has never left me.

[know.your.why]

racing ahead of the flood,

The part of the Jonestown flood thats truly gruesome is the fires that followed. Masses of crumpled buildings, trees, basically the whole town with all the people who were not killed by the flood, trapped in the debris. Burning to death. After being swept up by the flood and miraculously surviving that...only to burn to death. Yeah...thats one story that I kinda wish I hadn't have read. And it all ultimately was caused by human greed, obstinance, and negligence.