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	Barry 04:2000 Explorer
		The Great Mississippi River flood of 1927 was one of the country's greatest natural disasters -- but even its powerful force couldn't break the spirit of the people.
		Flood waters threatened to crumble levees in Arkansas.
		All of the upper Mississippi was in flood by April 9, 1927.
	www.aapg.org /explorer/2000/04apr/barry.cfm (1118 words)

	Great Mississippi Flood -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Great Mississippi Flood in 1927 was the most destructive flood in (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States history.
		In the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 the (A major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico) Mississippi River broke out of its levee system in 145 places and flooded 27,000 square miles or about 16,570,627 acres (70 km²).
		The flood propelled Secretary of Commerce (31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)) Herbert Hoover into the national spotlight and set the stage for his election to the Presidency.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gr/Great_Mississippi_Flood.htm (486 words)

	Encyclopedia: Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 the Mississippi River broke out of its levee system in 145 places and flooded 27,000 square miles or about 16,570,627 acres (70 km²).
		As the flood approached New Orleans, Louisiana 30 tons of dynamite were set off on the levee at Caernarvon, Louisiana and sent 250,000 ft³/s (7,000 m³/s) of water pouring through.
		The aftermath of the flood was one factor in the Great Migration of African-Americans to northern cities.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Great-Mississippi-Flood-of-1927 (413 words)

	The Great Flood of 1993 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The loss of wetlands in the Mississippi River basin added to the extreme nature of the flood, but even if all natural wetlands had still existed, the flood would likely still have set records and caused billions of dollars in damage (Kolva 4).
		Flooding caused an estimated $500 million in road damage and barge traffic on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers was closed for two months, costing carriers $1 million per day (McConnell 8).
		Before the 1993 floods, only 10% of Midwest residents who lived in flood-prone areas had flood insurance, and only those living in the 400 counties which were declared disaster areas were eligible for federal disaster relief (McConnell 6-7).
	www.ckweather.com /opinion/school/flood.html (1429 words)

	mississippi river flood 1927 and other mississippi related information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mississippi River Flood of 1927 (1936) Short silent film produced by the Signal Corps of the Mississippi flood of 1927.
		On the Mississippi River in 1927, progress was everywhere.
		The Flood," by Robert Frost; and the 1927 Mississippi Flood The Flood by Robert Lee Frost Blood...
	www.nethorde.com /mississippi/mississippi-river-flood-1927.html (403 words)

	ipedia.com: Great Mississippi Flood Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 the Mississippi River broke out of its levee system in 145 places an...
		In the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 the Mississippi River broke out of its levee system in 145 places and flooded 27,000 square miles or about 16,570,627 acres (70 km²).
		As the flood approached New Orleans, Louisiana 30 tons of dynamite were set off on the levee at Caernarvon, Louisiana and sent 250,000 ft³/s (7,000 m³/s) of water pouring through.
	www.ipedia.com /great_mississippi_flood.html (411 words)

	Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 - Wikinfo
		The flood affected Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee with Arkansas being hardest hit with 13% of its territory covered by floodwaters.
		By September the Mississippi's tributaries in Kansas and Iowa swollen to capacity.
		As the flood approached New Orleans, Louisiana 30 tons of dynamite were set off on the levee at Caernarvon, Louisiana and sent 250,000 cubic feet of water per second pouring through.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927 (976 words)

	Man vs. Nature: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lying in the heart of the Mississippi delta, which some consider the richest agricultural land on earth, Greenville in 1927 was the epicenter of the worst flood in the history of the United States.
		In the winter of 1926-27 the rains were so heavy that on the tributaries of the Mississippi the water had overflowed the banks, causing floods to the west in Oklahoma and Kansas, to the east in Illinois and Kentucky.
		Charles Williams was an employee of former Mississippi Senator Le Roy Percy's on one of the largest cotton plantations in the Delta.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/05/0501_river4.html (1974 words)

	Mississippi Flood of 1927
		By April the eastern flood waters are ceasing and the Mississippi subsides.
		The Mississippi valley regions normally get their heaviest rainfall in May and the resultant rise in the water is augmented by flood waters from the Missouri, which enter the Mississippi in June.
		In the flood of 1882 a person could take a boat from Vicksburg to Monroe (1 inch to the left of Vicksburg on the map), Louisiana, some 80 miles!.
	blueslyrics.tripod.com /dictionary/1927_flood.htm (411 words)

	Book Review -- John M. Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and how it Changed America, 1997
		The flood of 1927 highlighted futile attempts to control nature, end a way of life in the Mississippi-Yazoo delta, and marked an end of the driving force behind New Orleans, the powerful banking establishment.
		The Mississippi River flood of 1993 which devastated the Midwest carried one million cubic feet of water per second while the 1927 flood carried an excess of three million cubic feet of water per second.
		In the wake of the flood, all of the plantation labor, in particular racial minorities, were left with few possessions or reasons to stay, eventually altering the economic and societal structure of the delta.
	www.olemiss.edu /orgs/SGLC/MS-AL/book.htm (1655 words)

	Lessons from the Great Flood of 1927 Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood and How it Changed America by John M. ...
		The Mississippi flood of 1927 exposed the class divide in America as well as laid bare grinding class and racial oppression in the South.
		Barry focuses a good deal of attention on the flood’s impact in the Mississippi Delta region, the alluvial plain in the northwest portion of the state of Mississippi that was the scene of some of the worst devastation.
		Barry writes, The flood “shifted perceptions of the role and responsibility of the federal government—calling for a great expansion—and shattered the myth of a quasi-feudal bond between Delta fls and the southern aristocracy...it accelerated the great migration of fls north.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2006/jan2006/tide-j27.shtml (3297 words)

	Government's Great Flood
		The Mississippi River Basin is the largest river basin in the world, and stretches from New York to Idaho and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
		The original 7.5 foot levee at Morganza, Louisiana, was able to maintain the Great Flood of 1850 but by the 1920s the levee required a 38-foot height to hold the same amount of water.
		In the Great Flood of 1927 the Durina Levee broke, flooding 175,000 acres.
	www.mises.org /freemarket_detail.asp?control=8&sortorder=articledate (762 words)

	The Great USA Flood of 1993
		The flood was unusual in the magnitude of the crests, the number of record crests, the large area impacted, and the length of the time the flood was an issue.
		The magnitude and severity of this flood event was simply over-whelming, and it ranks as one of the greatest natural disasters ever to hit the United States.
		This resulted in flooding on rivers in Minnesota and Wisconsin and eventually pushed the Mississippi River to a crest at St. Louis on July 12th of about 43 feet, equaling the previous stage of record.
	www.nwrfc.noaa.gov /floods/papers/oh_2/great.htm (1702 words)

	Results of Study of the Great Flood
		The flooding of the "upper Mississippi" in 1993 began in the middle of June and lasted until early August, and caused more damage than recent floods(*3).
		In speculating on the aftermath of the flood, O'Riordan points out that "...the river was simply seeking its rightful channels to the sea as it had always done before levees constricted its flow and development impeded its naturally meandering ways.
		After the Great Flood of 1993, many of these towns downstream are starting to face pressure from their neighboring towns, and the Army Corps of Engineers to build levees.
	www.geo.mtu.edu /department/classes/ge404/flood/background/flood.paper (2050 words)

	Salon \| Swamp Fever
		When floods get their two hours of fame, I sure as hell hope the subject is the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the biggest natural disaster in the nation's history.
		I grew up on the Mississippi, in a one-stop-sign town by the name of Carville, La. I was born 17 years after the Great Flood, but that did not diminish my respect for the river.
		As the flood waters started approaching New Orleans, the close-knit cabal of New Orleans bankers who ran Louisiana from their exclusive krewes and clubs decided they were going to save their own skins by dynamiting a levee about 10 miles from the city.
	www.salon.com /april97/columnists/carville970407.html (1616 words)

	edunow.com: Title: Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America \| Author: Barry, John M.
		Over 13,000 refugees near Greenville, Mississippi were gathered from area farms and evacuated to the crest of an unbroken levee, and stranded there for days without food or clean water, while boats arrived to evacuate white women and children.
		The aftermath of the flood was one factor in the Great Migration of African-Americans to northern cities.
		In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.edunow.com /0684840022.shtml (1194 words)

	FasterCures: FasterCures Review -- October 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 devastated the Mississippi River region.
		Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, called the flood "the greatest peace-time calamity in the history of the country." 246 people died as a result of the flood; 700,000 people were forced from their homes; 1,500,000 farm animals were destroyed; and the Lower Mississippi Valley, including parts of seven states, remained flooded for five months.
		After the 1927 flood, there was great concern about the health effects of the thousands of human and animal corpses that littered the Delta.
	www.fastercures.org /sec/cams_review_oct05 (680 words)

	Powell's Books - Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M Barry
		When the river flooded, it was possible to travel in a boat, east to west in the South, two hundred miles.
		The subsequent flooding produced the worst national disaster in American history, resulting in an unknown number of deaths, assumed to be in the thousands.
		The flood represented the greatest natural disaster America had ever known; water claimed the lives of over 1,000 people and the homes of nearly one million, exposing racism, greed, power politics, and bureaucratic incompetence at every turn while simultaneously creating national heroes and lasting social change throughout the Deep South.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0684840022 (668 words)

	BookBlog: Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
		The Plaquemines Parish flooding in 1927 was manmade.
		In Mississippi, local aristocrats refused to allow fl people to be evacuated since they feared that their source of labor would never return.
		The flood itself was made more severe by the flood control system, which used levees to contain the river, but left out spillways and reservoirs to divert floodwaters.
	alevin.com /weblog/archives/001734.html (832 words)

	Amazon.de: Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America: English Books: John M. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The great Mississippi Flood of 1927, one of THE greatest disasters in American history, is now largely forgotten despite the social upheavals it caused.
		Of course the 1993 floods caused no major social upheavals and that is at least as important to the story.
		The different strata of society affected by the flood are given a good deal of exposure, and Barry does a good job of linking the Republican Administration's flaccid response to the catastrophe with the changing political loyalties of sharecroppers and others.
	www.amazon.de /Rising-Tide-Mississippi-Changed-America/dp/0671576933 (1374 words)

	Katrina puts author in the spotlight - The Boston Globe
		But as a result, vast rural areas were flooded, hundreds were killed, thousands of poor fl residents became homeless, and damage ran (in today's dollars) in the billions.
		The flood's political and social impact was as great as the natural.
		The 1927 flood was enormously greater, but a hurricane of Katrina's strength was predictable and expected.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/09/10/katrina_puts_author_in_the_spotlight (826 words)

	Rising Tide — The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		"The Great Humanitarian," Hoover is the capable organizer of the flood relief effort and a public-relations manipulator, who used media coverage of the disaster to propel himself to the presidency.
		Conventional wisdom on dealing with flooding at the time the survey was authorized was divided into two camps: the levees-only (containment) advocates and those who advocated reducing flood levels by building outlets, (reservoirs and cutoffs were also advocated for achieving this effect).
		Despite the criticism of the levees-only policy by the well-respected Eads, it took the flood of 1927 to provoke the reevaluation of the levees-only policy and ironically, the adoption of recommendations made almost fifty years previously by Ellet and Eads to formulate the existing flood management policy for the Mississippi.
	gemini.tntech.edu /~vneary/RTFP.html (1740 words)

	The Weather Doctor Book Reviews
		Such was the case for the great Mississippi River flood of 1927.
		Although the rains which spawned the flood waters fell within months of the flood crest, many of the conditions which either caused or exacerbated the flooding had human roots three quarters of a century long.
		The flooding spread as far west as Oklahoma and Kansas and east as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and from Iowa to the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/reviews/risetide.htm (734 words)

	Richard Wright's flood stories and the great Mississippi River flood of 1927: social and historical backgrounds. ...
		Many factual accounts of the Great Flood remark that Delta landlords were fearful of their tenants abandoning the flood area, a migration that would not only deprive the community of low-cost clean-up crews but also leave the land without laborers to work it.
		In other words, the whites' obsessive belief that the fl male posed a threat to white women and children and their eagerness to make his crime more heinous by making his victims less able to defend themselves were more the cause of his destruction than was the crime for which he was actually charged.
		He captialized on the flood, then, using it as a vehicle to express the vivid and haunting impressions of his youth within the context of his newly found social consciousness.
	www.pipeline.com /~rougeforum/floodstories.html (6751 words)

	American Experience \| Fatal Flood \| Timeline
		The river appears to be on the verge of flooding, but the Mississippi River Commission still insists the levees will hold.
		April 26: Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, placed in charge of flood relief by President Calvin Coolidge, visits Greenville and approves the flood relief committee's plans.
		He has ridden a wave of good publicity from his flood relief efforts, and is determined to maintain his positive image.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/flood/timeline/timeline2.html (1390 words)

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