TY - BOOK AU - Tarshis,Lauren AU - Dawson,Scott TI - I survived the Wellington avalanche, 1910 T2 - I survived SN - 9781338752571 AV - PE U1 - [Fic] 23 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. KW - Avalanches KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Blizzards KW - Survival KW - Railroad trains KW - Fiction KW - Fiction. KW - Wellington (Wash.) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Cascade Range KW - Washington (State) KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Action and adventure fiction N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Accelerated Reader; MG; 4.3; 2.0 N2 - "The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after midnight on March 1, a lightning storm struck the mountain, sending a ten-foot-high wave of snow barreling down the mountain"--Provided by publisher ER -