QUAKE AND SNAKE

A pocket of extreme heat develops beneath San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area. The earth trembles unrelentingly, steam geysers appear in many locations, and seismologists try frantically to find out what is causing the phenomena. Time runs out. The Golden Gate Channel bottom blasts skyward two miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge. A cinder cone rises in the channel, gushes lava, and threatens to block shipping - the Bay Area's economic lifeline. Thousands die as the eruption causes an inside-the-bay tsunami. Oakland and Berkeley are virtually destroyed, and San Francisco lies under a deepening carpet of volcanic ash. Nature is to blame.

But - the United States government is complicit.

Synopsis

Call them soldiers of fortune, troubled veterans, or ne’er-do-wells, they are five Americans who embark on a mission in the Belizean rain forest to capture an anaconda of mythological proportions. This constrictor, not even indigenous to Belize, has developed a taste for human flesh.

Synopsis

John Pio, a Madeiran sailor, stepped ashore in Castine, ME, around 1828. He married and had three – perhaps four – children. The true number may never be known.. This book is a compilation of all of the information the author could amass about John Pio and his descendants. It further lists the pedigrees of all researchable people who married into the Pio bloodline. It contains hundreds of photos and genealogical charts, all available on this website to interested relatives and other researchers.