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Thousand-Year Flood

The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937

Autor: David Welky

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Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: The University of Chicago Press

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In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising....

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Autor

David Welky

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

2011

Stránok

384

EAN

9780226887166

ISBN

0226887162

Enbook ID

04550389

Vydavateľ

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnosť

656

Rozmery

15 x 24 x 26

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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.

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