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The Attitudes of People;
"Nobody seemed particularly concerned at the time over the dam which rich Pittsburghers had maintained high up on the South Fork... When the earthen dam had first been constructed, there had been some apprehension. But the dam had never burst and, with the passage of time, the townspeople ... grew calloused to the possibility of danger. "Sometime," they thought, "that dam will give way, but it won't ever happen to us."
-- Victor Heiser, 16 year old survivor of the Flood |