Download or read book The 1965 Mississippi River Flood in Iowa written by Harlan H. Schwob and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upper Mississippi River Basin Floods of April May 1965 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee To Inspect Flooded Areas in the Upper Mississippi River Basin and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Flood 1965 written by Clinton Herald (Clinton, Iowa) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Floods of March May 1965 in the Upper Mississippi River Basin written by David Bryan Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The floods of March-May 1965 in the upper Mississippi River basin occurred as two different events, one during the latter part of February and early March and the other starting early in April and extending into May. Factors contributing to the floods were rapid melting of the winter accumulation of snow, heavy rains on the snow pack, and deeply frozen ground throughout much of the basin, which made the soil almost impervious and thereby greatly increased the amount of runoff. Peak stages and discharges during the floods exceeded previous known maxima at many points. Included in this report are peak stages and discharges for these floods at 333 sites; flood damages; effect of drainage and storage on flood peaks; and the operations of the U.S. Geological Survey and other Federal agencies during the flood emergency.
Download or read book The March May 1965 Floods in the Upper Mississippi Missouri and Red River of the North Basins written by Joseph L. H. Paulhus and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upper Mississippi River Basin Floods of April May 1965 Report of the Special Subcommittee to Inspect Flooded Areas in the Upper Mississippi River Basin to the June 1965 written by United States. Congress. House. Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upper Mississippi River Basin Floods of Apr May 1965 Report written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee To Inspect Flooded Areas in the Upper Mississippi River Basin and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deep n as it Come written by Pete Daniel and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Mississippi River Flood Control Prairie Du Chien written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi River Flood Problem written by John A. Fox and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rock Island Distric Flood of April May 1965 Mississippi River written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Rock Island District and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upper Mississippi River Red River of the North written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. St. Paul District and published by . This book was released on 1966* with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874 written by Louis Alfred Wiltz and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1993 Mississippi River Floods written by Jen Green and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mighty Mississippi River and its tributaries drain a huge part of the central United States. After heavy rainfall throughout the spring of 1993, people living on the rivers held their breath as the waters rose. When the rivers broke their banks, the floods covered large parts of nine states and left more than seventy thousand people homeless. It was one of the worst disasters in American history. Book jacket.
Download or read book Rising Tide written by John M. Barry and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America.
Download or read book Flood Control The Mississippi River and its tributaries Hearings Nov 7 to 22 Nov 28 to Dec 19 1927 Jan 5 17 Jan 18 to 26 Jan 27 Feb 1 1928 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi River Tragedies written by Christine A Klein and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read a free excerpt here! American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called “natural disasters” continue to strike the Mississippi basin, as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico. In some places, only the tombstones remain, leaning at odd angles as the underlying soil erodes away. Mississippi River Tragedies reveals that it is seductively deceptive—but horribly misleading—to call such catastrophes “natural.” Authors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer present a sympathetic account of the human dreams, pride, and foibles that got us to this point, weaving together engaging historical narratives and accessible law stories drawn from actual courtroom dramas. The authors deftly uncover the larger story of how the law reflects and even amplifies our ambivalent attitude toward nature—simultaneously revering wild rivers and places for what they are, while working feverishly to change them into something else. Despite their sobering revelations, the authors’ final message is one of hope. Although the acknowledgement of human responsibility for unnatural disasters can lead to blame, guilt, and liability, it can also prod us to confront the consequences of our actions, leading to a liberating sense of possibility and to the knowledge necessary to avoid future disasters.
