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The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937
David Welky
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| #1360156 in Books | 2011-09-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.44 | File type: PDF | 384 pages||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| A Great History of a Great Disaster|By Richard S. Dixon Jr.|This is an excellent account of a major environmental catastrophe that few beyond those with ties to the Ohio River Valley understand or even remember. My mother was a seventeen year-old high school senior when the flood swept through Louisville and carried with it the remains of her middle-class life in the West End (||"David Welky has done a prodigious job of reminding us about the horror inflicted by the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937. At its heart, The Thousand-Year Flood is a Great Depression story not unlike the Dust Bowl tragedy. His scholarship is impeccable. H
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.
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