Author: Seth Darnaby BreedingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Flash Floods in Texas
Author: Jonathan BurnettPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585445905
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
How many times have you heard the television or radio alert, “We are now under a flash flood watch”? While the destructive force of flash flooding is a regular occurrence in the state and has caused a tremendous amount of damage and heartache over the years, no one until now has recorded in a single book the history of flash floods in Texas. After combing libraries and archives, grilling county historians, trekking to flood sites, and collecting scores of graphic photographs, Jonathan Burnett chose twenty-eight floods from around the state to create this narrative of a century of disastrous events. Beginning with the famous Austin dam break of 1900 and ending with the historic 2002 flooding in the Hill Country, Burnett chronicles the causes and courses of these catastrophic floods as well as their costs in material damage and human lives. Dramatic photographs of each event enhance the harrowing accounts of danger spawned by nature on a rampage. Together, the stories and the pictures give readers a vivid and lasting image of the power and unpredictability of flash floods in Texas. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
Texas Floods of 1940
Author: Seth Darnaby BreedingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Goodbye to a River
Author: John GravesPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307773353
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author: Notes on Hydrologic Activities
Author: United States. Inter-agency Committee on Water ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Principal Federal Sources of Hydrologic Data
Author: United States. Inter-agency Committee on Water Resources. Subcommittee on HydrologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Water-supply Paper
Author: Springs of Texas
Author: Gunnar M. BrunePublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441969
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
This text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.
Floods on Bachman Branch and Joes Creek at Dallas, Texas
Author: Frederick H. RugglesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dallas (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Flood on the Tracks
Author: Todd M. KerstetterPublisher: Plains Histories
ISBN: 9781682830161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Examines the Elkhorn River Basin in Nebraska, the floods it has endured, and the impact on the community over time by exploring the effects on the Plains Indians to current day inhabitants"--