His debut novel, EYEWALL was a number-one best-seller in Amazon’s Kindle store. He’s a native Oregonian and attended the University of Washington in Seattle where he earned a bachelor’s degree in atmospheric science he also studied creative writing.īuzz currently is vice president of the Southeastern Writers Association. “Buzz” Bernard is a best-selling author, former meteorologist, and Air Force Veteran. You just may not want to read it if you are traveling to the Northwest Coastal Region.
You just don’t know how all the characters are going to connect and what will happen to each of them once the quake hits.īernard packs a powerful story into a quick read that can easily be consumed over a weekend. I know enough about Bernard’s books that I know the earthquake is coming or there wouldn’t be a story to tell. You know that a murder is going to happen you just don’t know who is going to die and who committed the murder. The “Thunderbird and Whale” narrative gives the reader a perspective of understanding the weather long before we had seismology and meteorologists.ĬASCADIA is predictable in the way that murder mysteries are predictable. In the Prologue, we are given a folktale that has been passed down through generations of Native Americans foretelling the power of a megaquake and forthcoming tsunami. It gives you enough information to understand the devastating effects of a megaquake on the entire coastline. These characters and others converge on Manzanita over 4th of July weekend and their lives will collide in a way none of them expected.ĬASCADIA is fast-paced and doesn’t bog you down with the technical side of earthquakes. We also meet a retired Air Force veteran who comes to Manzanita to make amends with his past. Johnny is one of those men who has been studying the area, looking for the buried treasure left behind by the Native Americans after the quake hit in the 1700’s. The quake appears in his dreams as bigger than the one researchers have studied that hit the same coastal area in the 1700’s. Bernard introduces us to Rob, a geologist, who has “visions” of a megaquake followed by a tsunami that hits his beloved Manzanita area. In his newest book, CASCADIA, his setting is the beautiful Oregon Coastline. His weather experience is lengthy and makes it only natural for him to write about weather catastrophes. “Buzz” Bernard is a former senior meteorologist for The Weather Channel and prior to that, he was a weather officer with the Air Force.
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