Flood Control, Drainage , Levee Districts
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 1931
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 1931
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Author : Pete Daniel
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781557284013
The spring and summer of 1927, the Mississippi River and its tributaries flooded from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico, tearing through seven states, sometimes spreading out to nearly one hundred miles across. Pete Daniel's Deep'n as It Come, available again in a new format, chronicles the worst flood in the history of the South and re-creates, with extraordinary immediacy, the Mississippi River's devastating assault on property and lives. Daniel weaves his narrative with newspaper and firsthand accounts, interviews with survivors, official reports, and over 140 contemporary photographs. The story of the common refugee who suffered most from the effects of the flood emerges alongside the details of the massive rescue and relief operation - one of the largest ever mounted in the United States. The title, Deep'n as It Come, is a phrase from Cora Lee Campbell's earthy description of the approaching water, which, Daniel writes, "moved at a pace of some fourteen miles per day," and, in its movement and sound, "had the eeriness of a full eclipse of the sun, unsettling, chilling." "The contradictions of sorrow and humor,... death and salvation, despair and hope, calm and panic - all reveal the human dimension" in this compassionate and unforgettable portrait of common people confronting a great natural disaster.
Author : Joseph L. Arnold
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Flood control
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Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Arkansas River
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Public Works
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Page : 1538 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Civil engineering
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Floods
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Flood control
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Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Civil Works Directorate
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Page : 1800 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Engineering
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