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The Thousand Year Flood
Author | : David Welky |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2011-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226887180 |
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In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused more than half a billion dollars of damage at a time when the Great Depression still battered the nation. Timed to coincide with the flood's seventy-fifth anniversary, The Thousand-Year Flood is the first comprehensive history of one of the most destructive disasters in American history. David Welky first shows how decades of settlement put Ohio valley farms and towns at risk and how politicians and planners repeatedly ignored the dangers. Then he tells the gripping story of the river's inexorable rise: residents fled to refugee camps and higher ground, towns imposed martial law, prisoners rioted, Red Cross nurses endured terrifying conditions, and FDR dispatched thousands of relief workers. In a landscape fraught with dangers—from unmoored gas tanks that became floating bombs to powerful currents of filthy floodwaters that swept away whole towns—people hastily raised sandbag barricades, piled into overloaded rowboats, and marveled at water that stretched as far as the eye could see. In the flood's aftermath, Welky explains, New Deal reformers, utopian dreamers, and hard-pressed locals restructured not only the flood-stricken valleys, but also the nation's relationship with its waterways, changes that continue to affect life along the rivers to this day. A striking narrative of danger and adventure—and the mix of heroism and generosity, greed and pettiness that always accompany disaster—The Thousand-Year Flood breathes new life into a fascinating yet little-remembered American story.
1 000 Year Flood
Author | : Stephen J. Lyons,Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780762766468 |
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The people that will be most affected by a “greater Cedar Rapids” were staying home, or were still coping in FEMA trailers where the water pipes routinely burst in the harsh Iowa winter, or were living with relatives, or had simply disappeared and moved on or given up. They had sold their flooded houses for a song or had taken out a mortgage at the age of seventy. They were buried under massive mounds of bureaucratic paperwork, trying to get a check so they could rebuild or relocate. They were scrubbing the mud off their ruined homes. Their neighborhoods were gone. Their nerves were frayed. Their hearts were forever broken. This book is mainly about them—the people who did not attend the one-year commemoration—and why they stayed away. The people who had nothing, absolutely nothing to celebrate because everything had changed.
Base 100 year Flood Elevations for Selected Sites in Livingston County Missouri
Author | : Rodney E. Southard,Joseph M. Richards |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Flood forecasting |
ISBN | : UOM:39015056444188 |
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Base 100 year Flood Elevations for Selected Sites in Marion County Missouri
Author | : Rodney E. Southard,Gary L. Wilson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Flood control |
ISBN | : UCR:31210013202898 |
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Flood Insurance Study
Author | : United States. Federal Insurance Administration |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Flood forecasting |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D03405789G |
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The National Flood Insurance Program
Author | : Illinois. Governor's Task Force on Flood Control |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Flood control |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112122602870 |
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Watershed Hydrology Second Edition
Author | : Peter E. Black |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1996-05-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1575040271 |
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An comprehensive working reference, Watershed Hydrology begins with an overview of the hydrologic cycle and examines the basic concepts of storage in that cycle. The well-organized chapters cover topics such as: water and energy, storage of water in the atmosphere, water in the vegetative zone, water in the terrasphere (soil), water in the hydrosphere, and watershed management.
Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin
Author | : Committee on Flood Control Alternatives in the American River Basin,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1995-10-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780309588393 |
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This book reviews the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) investigations of flood control options for the American River basin and evaluates flood control feasibility studies for the watershed, with attention to the contingency assumptions, hydrologic methods, and other analyses supporting the flood control options. This book provides detailed comments on many technical issues, including a careful review of the 1991 National Research Council report American River Watershed Investigation, and looks beyond the Sacramento case to broader questions about the nation's approach to flood risk management. It discusses how to utilize information available about flood hazard reduction alternatives for the American River basin, the potential benefits provided by various alternatives, the impacts of alternatives on environmental resources and ecosystems, and the trade-offs inherent in any choice among alternatives which does not lie in the realm of scientists and engineers, but in the arena of public decisionmaking.