1. This article is based on some of the research by Rosemary Chinnici, ?Since April Third: An Investigation of Ministerial Reactions and Responses Following a Natural Disaster? (Doctoral dissertation, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, 1980).
2. John Bush, ?Domestic Natural Disaster: Toward a Model for Church Response? (D.Min. dissertation, San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, California, 1976), p. 45.
3. Cf. Anthony Wallace,Human Behavior in Extreme Situations (Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 1956), for a detailed discussion of responses based on physical proximity.
4. Church Response to United States Disasters: A Handbook (New Windsor, MD, 1978), p. 13.
5. Harry E. Moore,Waco-San Angelo Disaster Study: Report on Second Year's Work (Austin, University of Texas Press, 1958), p. 2.