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Author : Lawrence E. Will
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Okeechobee Hurricane and the Hoover Dike written by Lawrence E. Will and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne Neely
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491754451
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book The Great Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928 written by Wayne Neely and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you live in the Caribbean or Florida, youve probably heard tales about the Great Okeechobee Hurricane, which killed thousands and left behind wide swaths of destruction. Also known as the Saint Felipe (Phillip) Segundo Hurricane, it developed in the far eastern Atlantic before making its way over land and taking the lives of Bahamian migrant workers and Florida residents. This thoroughly researched history considers the storm and its aftermath, exploring an important historical weather event that has been neglected. Through historical photographs of actual damage and personal recollections, author and veteran meteorologist Wayne Neely examines the widespread devastation that the hurricane caused. Youll get a detailed account on: workers who were caught unprepared on the farms in the Okeechobee region of Florida; challenges that those involved in the recovery effort faced after the hurricane passed; personal and community turmoil that took decades to fully overcome. This massive storm killed at least 2,500 people in the United States of which approximately 1,400 were Bahamians migrant workers, becoming the second deadliest hurricane in the history of the United States, behind only the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. To this day, it remains the deadliest hurricane to ever strike the Bahamas.
Author : Herbert Hoover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Dedication of the Herbert Hoover Dike written by Herbert Hoover and published by . This book was released on 1961* with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781543292282
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (922 download)
Download or read book The 1928 Lake Okeechobee Hurricane written by Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the hurricane by survivors *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Pointe a Pitre was a perfect picture of a city that had been dynamited during the preceding night." - William H. Hunt, American Consul on the Guadeloupe, in a letter to Secretary of State Frank Kellogg In 2005, the world watched in horror as Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans, and the calamity seemed all the worse because many felt that technology had advanced far enough to prevent such tragedies, whether through advanced warning or engineering. At the same time, that tends to overlook all of the dangers posed by hurricanes and other phenomena that produce natural disasters. After all, storms and hurricanes have been wiping out coastal communities ever since the first humans built them. As bad as Hurricane Katrina was, the hurricane that struck southern Florida in September 1928 killed hundreds more, with an estimated death toll of over 2,500 people. Prior to advanced communications, few people knew about impending hurricanes except those closest to the site, and in the days before television or the widespread use of radios, catastrophic descriptions were merely recorded on paper, limiting an understanding of the immediate impact. Stories could be published after the water receded and the dead were buried, but by then, the immediate shock had worn off and all that remained were the memories of the survivors. Thus, it was inevitable that the Category 5 hurricane wrought almost inconceivable destruction as it made landfall in Florida with winds at nearly 150 miles per hour, and in addition to the powerful storm itself, the flooding of Lake Okeechobee, the 7th largest freshwater lake in the country, exacerbated the damage by spilling across several hundred square miles, which were covered in up to 20 feet of water in some places. The 1928 Lake Okeechobee Hurricane chronicles the story of the second deadliest hurricane in American history. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Okeechobee Hurricane like never before, in no time at all.
Author : Glenda Norwood Petz
Publisher : Glenda Norwood Petz
ISBN 13 : 1689033916
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Hurricane written by Glenda Norwood Petz and published by Glenda Norwood Petz. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a Category 5 hurricane barreling towards the southeast coast of Florida, Kayla Woodbridge is forced to cut her beach vacation with her children short and return home to prepare for the coming storm. Boone Chadwick, a new friend she met at the beach, isn't as concerned about the impending storm as Kayla is and refuses to heed her warnings to vacate the island. When the causeway bridge, the only road on and off the island, is destroyed after being struck by a barge, Boone gets stranded with eleven others from his hotel, their location in the direct path of Hurricane Phillipe’s landfall. Back at home in Nanette, Kayla is forced to face the storm alone with her children after her husband is arrested and charged with murder. The catastrophic hurricane also has another target in his sight - the protective dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee. Is the levee strong enough to withstand 150 mph winds, or will Phillipe be the hurricane that brings it down?
Author : Wayne Neely
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 149175446X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book The Great Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928 written by Wayne Neely and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly researched history considers the storm and its aftermath, exploring an important historical weather event that has been neglected. Through historical photographs of actual damage and personal recollections, author and veteran meteorologist Wayne Neely examines the widespread devastation that the hurricane caused.
Author : Robert Mykle
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461733707
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Killer 'Cane written by Robert Mykle and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over two thousand people, a third of the area's population. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad. Killer 'Cane is a vivid description of America's second-greatest natural disaster, coming between the financial disasters of the Florida real-estate bust and the onset of the Great Depression.
Author : Robert D. Carver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Stability of Articulated Concrete Mattresses for Herbert Hoover Dike Improvements, Lake Okeechobee, Florida written by Robert D. Carver and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vance A. Myers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Characteristics of United States Hurricanes Pertinent to Levee Design for Lake Okeechobee, Florida written by Vance A. Myers and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third report published by the Hydrometeorological Section in collaboration with the Corps of Engineers on meteorological factors pertinent to levee design for Lake Okeechobee.
Author : Lawrence E. Will
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Okechobee Hurricane and the Hoover Dike written by Lawrence E. Will and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Janosky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813014678
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Okeechobee written by Jim Janosky and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A journey through backwoods, pioneer central, and southern Florida . . . and a sensitive portrayal of the people who distinguish the area today."--Vicki Silver, senior planner, Palm Beach County From the foreword: "In this book, you will discover cowboys, fish camps, tourist campgrounds, sugarcane workers, and miles of dikes that hold back the waters of Lake Okeechobee. . . . Jim Janosky has used his camera lens to capture the toughness, the sensitivity, and the diversity of life around the lake."--Susan Duncan, historian In 115 black-and-white photographs, Jim Janosky records the features and faces of Okeechobee, from Saturday night in downtown Pahokee, to the great hurricane of '28, to the cane fields, preachers, county agents, beekeepers, and countless others who make up the region. His evocative, fact-filled essay presents one man's journey along this modern Florida frontier. Lake Okeechobee lies still, eerie and almost invisible, behind a high earthen dike that encircles its long shoreline. Yet the area around it has been lashed for decades with waves of human conflict and natural catastrophe. A government study in 1847 describes it as a "wilderness of profound and wild solitude." Just 65 years later, 50 real estate companies in Chicago were selling property around the lake. The region boomed with fishermen, cowboys, and bootleggers, and Okeechobee City earned a reputation as the roughest town east of the Mississippi. In the '20s, nature struck: three successive years of heavy rains; a drought that dried out the organic soil so thoroughly that it caught fire; and hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 that decimated the countryside. With the Hoover Dike in place in the '30s and the pioneer spirit still strong, new communities developed from the reclaimed wetlands. Today the area is enmeshed in one of the most intense debates in the country between environmentalists and farmers. Haunted by the soul of this Florida landscape, Jim Janosky has observed it, photographed it, and captured its spirit once and for all in this moving visual and written history. Jim Janosky, former environmental education specialist with the U.S. Army at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, is a poet, farmer, photographer, songwriter, and music publisher.
Author : Kevin M. McCarthy
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781561640218
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Book Lover's Guide to Florida written by Kevin M. McCarthy and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1992 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is the book lover's literary tour of Florida, an exhaustive survey of writers, books, and literary sites in every part of the state. The state is divided into ten areas and each one is described from a literary point of view. You will learn what authors lived in or wrote about a place, which books describe the place, what important movies were made there, even the literary trivia which the true Florida book lover will want to know. You can use the book as a travel guide to a new way to see the state, as an armchair guide to a better understanding of our literary heritage, or as a guide to what to read next time you head to a bookstore or library."--Publisher.
Author : Jack E. Davis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082033071X
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book An Everglades Providence written by Jack E. Davis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the suffragist, feminist, and environmentalist who fought for the preservation and protection of the Everglades and won the battle that turned it into a national wilderness area.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Herbert Hoover Dike Major Rehabilitation written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce D. Epperson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476684642
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Draining the Swamp, Southern Style written by Bruce D. Epperson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, a Congressional committee met to investigate allegations that the Secretary of Agriculture had suppressed a report by J. O. Wright on drainage in the Florida Everglades. The following seven months of committee hearings uncovered a veritable horror-show of corruption, self-dealing, misuse of government personnel and property for private gain, the tarring of reputations in order to protect high-level officials, and outright blackmail within the Department of Agriculture and the state governments of Florida and North Carolina. The "Wright Report Incident" is most commonly understood in its connection to the Everglades, and few histories have included its effects on the North Carolina Pocosin wetland and other coastal plain swamps. This book seeks fills that gap. It details the timeline, intricate politics, and webs of corruption that make up the story of the Wright Incident and, specifically, its connection to land management practices in coastal North Carolina that continue to impact the industries of the state almost 100 years later.
Author : Ted Steinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199838992
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Acts of God written by Ted Steinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the waters of the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain began to pour into New Orleans, people began asking the big question--could any of this have been avoided? How much of the damage from Hurricane Katrina was bad luck, and how much was poor city planning? Steinberg's Acts of God is a provocative history of natural disasters in the United States. This revised edition features a new chapter analyzing the failed response to Hurricane Katrina, a disaster Steinberg warned could happen when the book first was published. Focusing on America's worst natural disasters, Steinberg argues that it is wrong to see these tragedies as random outbursts of nature's violence or expressions of divine judgment. He reveals how the decisions of business leaders and government officials have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property, especially among those least able to withstand such blows--America's poor, elderly, and minorities. Seeing nature or God as the primary culprit, Steinberg explains, has helped to hide the fact that some Americans are simply better able to protect themselves from the violence of nature than others. In the face of revelations about how the federal government mishandled the Katrina calamity, this book is a must-read before further wind and water sweep away more lives. Acts of God is a call to action that needs desperately to be heard.
Author : Assefa Melesse
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128159995
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Extreme Hydrology and Climate Variability written by Assefa Melesse and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme Hydrology and Climate Variability: Monitoring, Modelling, Adaptation and Mitigation is a compilation of contributions by experts from around the world who discuss extreme hydrology topics, from monitoring, to modeling and management. With extreme climatic and hydrologic events becoming so frequent, this book is a critical source, adding knowledge to the science of extreme hydrology. Topics covered include hydrometeorology monitoring, climate variability and trends, hydrological variability and trends, landscape dynamics, droughts, flood processes, and extreme events management, adaptation and mitigation. Each of the book's chapters provide background and theoretical foundations followed by approaches used and results of the applied studies. This book will be highly used by water resource managers and extreme event researchers who are interested in understanding the processes and teleconnectivity of large-scale climate dynamics and extreme events, predictability, simulation and intervention measures. - Presents datasets used and methods followed to support the findings included, allowing readers to follow these steps in their own research - Provides variable methodological approaches, thus giving the reader multiple hydrological modeling information to use in their work - Includes a variety of case studies, thus making the context of the book relatable to everyday working situations for those studying extreme hydrology - Discusses extreme event management, including adaption and mitigation
