Comments on: Gone at 3:17

By: stevo630

stevo630 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:18:00 +0000

I have just finished the book “GONE at 3:17″ and I am floored. This book probably is the most accurate and well written account of the horrible event that I have read. I always wanted to know more about the events just after the explosion in the days and weeks that followed. This book describes the emotional state of the community and my heart felt it too. I thank David Brown for his years of work on this important project.

By: Steve Franz

Steve Franz — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:04:00 +0000

I have completed about half of “GONE at 3:17″ and have found the book terrific! After the first 50 pages, where the characters are introduced and the scene is set, this book takes off like a wild fire! Cleverly written and smartly researched, Brown has a masterpiece here!

By: History Buff

History Buff — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:19:20 +0000

This sounds almost to horrific to be true. The book trailer is riveting. Can't wait to read the entire book.....the exceprts on www.schooldisaster.com where just incredibly and beautifully written.

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By: pittsburgher

pittsburgher — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:19:47 +0000

There was a show about this disaster last week on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, with host Rob Pratt talking with the authors and a Pittsburgh man who was in the Texas school when it exploded. Fascinating, though heartbreaking story. It sounds like the book will be one every parent should read.

By: Portia Elizabeth

Portia Elizabeth — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:03:30 +0000

Carolyn — I am so very sorry for what you had to endure. I can guarantee you your story lives on. My mother grew up not far from there (Henderson), and told us about it from the time we were kids. I think she had relatives in New London. Her family roots go deep in that part of Texas and, in fact, she had cousins named Jones. Her maiden name was Little.
Please accept my sincere condolences.

By: Eastan McNeal

Eastan McNeal — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:53:58 +0000

Bless you, Mrs. Jones.

By: Carolyn Jones (frei)

Carolyn Jones (frei) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:39:21 +0000

I am a survivor of the explosion, lost a sister and an uncle, and now at 82, I had begun to wonder if the disaster, and those who died in in, would be forgotten as many people in Texas would like. Thank you, David, for trying to help them to be remembered. Let us not have it happen again.

By: creeper

creeper — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:23:13 +0000

Easton McNeal, thank you for this very important story. I lived for twenty years in Houston and never heard a word about this event. The Texas City explosions were still a hot topic fifty years later but no one ever mentioned the New London school explosion. Stories I’ve read online this evening indicate that even now the locals find it difficult to talk about this disaster.

One thing people tend to overlook in their praise for adding malodorant to natural gas is that any seepage which may occur BEFORE the malodorant is added is not detectable. Nothing is foolproof…not natural gas safety or airline security. Life itself is inherently risky.

By: mountainaires

mountainaires — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:09:29 +0000

Fascinating and heartbreaking. I’m so profoundly grateful to people like David for their curiousity, and their personal mission to learn of and talk about people’s stories. We all come to know them through the eyes of the writer and in that way, their lives, and deaths, become part of our own. Story tellers are humanity’s way of keeping all of us linked to each other. I’m looking forward to reading their stories, and thanks for bringing this book to us, Eastan and David.

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:11:34 +0000

I just read the excerpts. I suspect this will do well because he’s turned it into a very human story. The snippet of the father pulling his two dead daughters from the wreckage is heartbreaking even in the abbreviated form. And the description of the explosion is riveting. It reads like fiction. The horrific part is knowing that it’s not.

Powerful stuff! I’ll definitely look for it.

By: Eastan McNeal

Eastan McNeal — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:43:21 +0000

Tricia, Peggy Sue. There are some chapters already posted on the 3:17 website. I don’t know that I, as a parent, could handle something like this.

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:41:05 +0000

I love trips through history, particularly those that take us into corners we haven’t seen before. Never heard of this incident. I’ll keep my eye out for the book.

Thanks for the heads up, Easton.

By: WestVirginia304

WestVirginia304 — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:41:04 +0000

Talk about man made disasters waiting to happen. In the mountains we have things like a 2.8 billion gallon coal slurry hovering just 400 feet above Marsh Fork Elementary School in WV.

And now school districts in PA are considering allowing gas drilling on school properties.

Who needs terrorists?