(Then again, who would report finding the treasure?)īernard got his start as a fiction writer after authoring several successful nonfiction weather books. “As far as I know, nobody has reported finding treasure on the mountain.” “That mountain has been dug up from top to bottom,” Bernard said. This well-known Pacific Northwest legend purports that treasure buried by Spanish explorers in the late 1500s lies buried somewhere on the mountain.

One of the really fun aspects of CASCADIA is a subplot about the hunt for treasure on Neahkahnie Mountain. “At least be minimally prepared for when it hits,” he said. After all, the best time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining-or in this case, before the earth starts quaking. However, he does say it helps to be prepared for disaster. “When it happens, it’s going to be the worst natural disaster in the United States.”įor someone who has written several novels about super storms and natural disasters, Bernard is far from an alarmist. “Unfortunately, that is a worst-case scenario that is going to happen someday,” he said. Much of CASCADIA is based on current geoscience, he said, which points toward a natural disaster much like the one imagined in those pages. “I try to stay within the realm of possibility,” Bernard explained. The scariest part of the story may be that Bernard’s book, like his others, is based on fact. Elwood knows this from his study of the geological record, which indicates that another “big one” is on the way.Įlwood puts his career, and even his marriage, on the line by making a very specific prediction: disaster will strike the Cascadia Subduction Zone over the busy July Fourth weekend. Not only will a cataclysmic earthquake strike the region once again, but the event will be followed by an epic tsunami. Rob Elwood, a geologist who makes a startling prediction. His newest novel is CASCADIA, set in the Pacific Northwest town of Manzanita. Now, Bernard has decided to shake things up. He has even flown into a hurricane aboard a hurricane hunter, an experience that helped prompt his best-selling thriller, Eyewall.

He has a degree in atmospheric science, spent a career in the Navy as a weather officer, was a senior meteorologist for The Weather Channel, and has gone in search of tornadoes with professional storm chasers. “Buzz” Bernard has just the sort of resume you might expect from an author of weather-related disaster thrillers.

Cascadia by H.W. &quot;Buzz&quot; Bernard

Cascadia by H.W. "Buzz" Bernard