Floodwaters And Flames

Author : Lois Miner Huey
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467797283

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Floodwaters and Flames by Lois Miner Huey Pdf

March 25, 1913, began as a typical day in Dayton, Ohio. Downtown bustled with streetcars, carriages, and automobiles. By 8:10 a rush of water from the Great Miami River flooded the city. Desperate people climbed trees and telephone poles to escape the torrent. For days, people were stranded, cut off from the outside world. Experience the Great Dayton Flood through the eyes of those who lived it. Today the storm that caused the flood and devastated Dayton and communities across the country is largely forgotten. But the residents of Dayton resolved never to suffer such a disaster again. Their heroic response became a model for how we prepare for and recover from natural disasters.

Author : Lois Miner Huey
Publisher : Millbrook Press (Tm)
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Dayton (Ohio)
ISBN : 9781467794329

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Floodwaters and Flames by Lois Miner Huey Pdf

The March and April storm of 1913 was the largest the United States had ever seen. Discover how the people of Dayton, Ohiothe city that suffered the moststruggled and survived.

Author : Nicky Barber,Nicola Barber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0764110586

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Fire and Flood by Nicky Barber,Nicola Barber Pdf

This series gives vivid accounts of natural catastrophes and why they happened. Encompassing school subject areas of geography, science, and geology, these books also offer eye-witness accounts from survivors. All ticktock titles are filled with full-color illustrations in attractive, accessible magazine-style formats. They're great for school-related papers and projects, and also provide fun reading for the entire family. Each book contains between 70 and 110 color illustrations. Included in this volume are accounts of the great fire that destroyed much of London in 1666, the great Chicago fire of 1871, the Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood of 1889, and more.

Author : John Farndon
Publisher : Hungry Tomato ®
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512474527

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Extreme Fires and Floods by John Farndon Pdf

In just a few seconds, a spark can turn a forest into a rapidly spreading inferno of intense heat and suffocating smoke. Firefighters try to control the wildfire—a battle that might last for months. Water can be used to fight wildfires, but too much water can cause deadly floods. Floods reduce land to swamp and sweep away houses and bridges. In their wake, they leave food shortages, contaminated drinking water, and diseases like cholera and typhus. Follow the scorched trail of the worst wildfires ever, learn what causes flash floods, and discover the technology that helps predict these devastating disasters.

Author : Philip Steele,Neil Morris
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836872487

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Inside Fires and Floods by Philip Steele,Neil Morris Pdf

Explains why fires and floods are a part of the natural environment, and describes how scientists try to forecast and prevent such potential disasters.

Author : David Lambert
Publisher : Evans Brothers
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0237517981

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Fires and Floods by David Lambert Pdf

Part of the Alpha Books series, which have been written with advice from experts that teach reading, and are printed in large, clear type. This title looks at fire in different places, examines safety measures to prevent fire, and describes how fire damage can be repaired. The book also focuses on flooding, and looks at ways in which man's activities have contributed to the threat, and presents some methods to prevent flooding on a large scale in the future.

Author : Logan Marshall
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547218913

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The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado by Logan Marshall Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado" by Logan Marshall. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Freddy Vinet
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780081023839

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Floods by Freddy Vinet Pdf

In the past thirty years, knowledge on flooding has greatly increased by moving away from purely hydrological and hydraulic science and opening up to other disciplines such as economics or human and geographical sciences. It is as part of this multidisciplinary approach that this book proposes a review of current knowledge on flood risk. It starts with the ever-increasing impact of flooding in order to conceptualize and understand the constituents of risk. Although risk knowledge in modeling methods or naturalist approaches remains essential, it is further developed by the fields of economics, human sciences, geography, environmental psychology and history. This integrated approach to flood risk contextualizes current conclusions on the eventual effects of climate change by showing that human factors are of paramount importance in understanding the process of “risk production . The book sets a state of art around the "flood issue" from the description of the phenomena to the management of risk (dikes, dams, reducing vulnerability, management of crisis...). The chapters are written by specialists but are accessible to the "mainstream scientist". Each chapter exposes knowledge, methodologies, scientific locks and the prospects of each discipline on the theme of floods.

Author : Annie Graeme Larkin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439642283

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Bisbee by Annie Graeme Larkin Pdf

Visually, the Bisbee of today remains a community frozen in time, with Main Street retaining its character from 1910. The discovery of copper deposits in the Mule Mountains brought forth a wealth that enabled a substantial community. Profitable mining ventures and a need for labor drew thousands of miners from around the world to work in Bisbee. These individuals added a distinct flavor to the area. Like countless other Western mining camps, Bisbee evolved from a rough frontier community surviving disastrous fires and floods into a town with a substantial population and solid foundation. Bisbees seemingly inexhaustible mineral wealth resulted in the community becoming a center of economic and political power in an emerging territory on its way to statehood. It was Arizonas greatest copper camp.

Author : Pat Farabaugh
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467150019

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Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in Johnstown by Pat Farabaugh Pdf

Johnstown is synonymous with floodwaters and steel. When the city was decimated by a flood of biblical proportions in 1889, it was considered one of the worst natural disasters in American history and gained global attention. Sadly, that deluge was only the first of three major floods to claim lives and wreak havoc in the region. The destruction in the wake of the St. Patrick's Day flood in 1936 was the impetus for groundbreaking federal and local flood control measures. Multiple dam failures, including the Laurel Run Dam in July 1977, left a flooded Johnstown with a failing steel industry in ruins. Author Pat Farabaugh charts the harrowing history of Johnstown's great floods and the effects on its economic lifeblood.

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295805214

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Fire in America by Stephen J. Pyne Pdf

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

Author : Michael Fleeman
Publisher : Centennial Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781951274290

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How to Survive Anything by Michael Fleeman Pdf

As we have learned with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a major disaster can strike anywhere, anytime, and in any form. Survival depends as much on what we know as what we do. Learn the skills you need to survive. This book explores everything that man and Mother Nature can unleash, from hurricanes to blizzards, shark attacks to plane crashes, even mass shootings, nuclear assault, and pandemics. With practical advice from leading experts, how-to tips and important tasks to do right now, plus real-life stories from people who endured catastrophe and lived to tell about it, this book is a comprehensive guide on what to do before, during and after disaster. Owning this book could mean the difference between life and losing it all.

Author : JJ Wilder
Publisher : Jasinda Wilder
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941098776

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Ark by JJ Wilder Pdf

Author : Howard Morphy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226538662

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Ancestral Connections by Howard Morphy Pdf

Yolngu art as a communication system encoding meaning as form; relation of art to the systems of clan organisation and restricted (secret) knowledge; contact history and social contexts of art production; iconography of clan paintings; response to the art market; social organisation rights to land and law; marriage and kinship; rights to paintings; knowledge system - structure, inclusiveness, power, secrecy; role of paintings in ceremonies - burial rituals; range of meanings associated with paintings - examples used in ceremonies associated with the Wawilak Sisters and ancestral shark images; graphic components of painting - figurative and geometric, clan designs; chronological change - the Donald Thomson Collection, past and contemporary categories of painting, commercial art; iconographic analysis of Manggalili clan paintings; relation of events in painting to Yolngu cosmology - creative powers , life and death, male and female dualities.

Author : Logan Marshall
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104404877

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The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado (1913) by Logan Marshall Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.