The 1927 flood is featured in the book Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America. It features a lot of history of New Orleans and Mardi Gras, a lot about hydraulics and hydrology of the Mississippi River, a lot about the history of the Army Corps and levees, and a good bit about race relations in the Mississippi Delta. Herbert Hoover makes an appearance, and a levee is blown up to save New Orleans. It is a great book, and I highly recommend it.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
More on Blowing Up Levees
The Army Corps does this more often than I thought:
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