When They Blew The Levee

Author : David Todd Lawrence,Elaine J. Lawless
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496817747

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When They Blew the Levee by David Todd Lawrence,Elaine J. Lawless Pdf

In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries Project. This levee breach was intended to divert water in order to save the town of Cairo, Illinois, but in the process, it completely destroyed the small African American town of Pinhook, Missouri. In When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri, authors David Todd Lawrence and Elaine J. Lawless examine two conflicting narratives about the flood--one promoted by the Corps of Engineers that boasts the success of the levee breach and the flood diversion, and the other gleaned from displaced Pinhook residents, who, in oral narratives, tell a different story of neglect and indifference on the part of government officials. Receiving inadequate warning and no evacuation assistance during the breach, residents lost everything. Still after more than six years, displaced Pinhook residents have yet to receive restitution and funding for relocation and reconstruction of their town. The authors' research traces a long history of discrimination and neglect of the rights of the Pinhook community, beginning with their migration from the Deep South to southeast Missouri, through purchasing and farming the land, and up to the Birds Point levee breach nearly eighty years later. The residents' stories relate what it has been like to be dispersed in other small towns, living with relatives and friends while trying to negotiate the bureaucracy surrounding Federal Emergency Management Agency and State Emergency Management Agency assistance programs. Ultimately, the stories of displaced citizens of Pinhook reveal a strong African American community, whose bonds were developed over time and through shared traditions, a community persisting despite extremely difficult circumstances.

Author : Hillary Potter, University of Colorado Boulder
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739159880

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Racing the Storm by Hillary Potter, University of Colorado Boulder Pdf

Racing the Storm addresses how racial stratification continues to be a factor in U.S. society and was exposed by Hurricane Katrina. The continuing significance of race is examined by considering public opinion, media representations, and government and volunteer response before, during, and after the storm.

Author : Sandy Rosenthal
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781642503289

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Words Whispered in Water by Sandy Rosenthal Pdf

“Anyone who is interested in Hurricane Katrina, and in America’s failing infrastructure, will want to read this book . . . a fast-paced narrative.” —Scott G. Knowles, Drexel University 2020 Nautilus Silver Winner In the aftermath of one of the worst disasters in US history, Words Whispered in Water tells the story of one woman’s fight, against all odds, to expose a mammoth federal agency—and win. In 2005, the entire world watched as a major US city was nearly wiped off the map. The levees ruptured and New Orleans drowned. But while newscasters attributed the New Orleans flood to “natural catastrophes” and other types of disasters, citizen investigator Sandy Rosenthal set out to expose the true culprit and compel the media and government to tell the truth. This is her story. When the protective steel flood-walls broke, the Army Corps of Engineers—with cooperation from big media—turned the blame elsewhere. In the chaotic aftermath, Rosenthal heroically exposes the federal agency’s egregious design errors and changes the narrative surrounding the New Orleans flood. This engaging and revealing tale of man versus nature and man versus man is a horror story, a mystery, and David and Goliath story all in one. “Reveals what it takes to hold the powerful to account.” —Publishers Weekly “There are only a few civilians that fight like real warriors. Sandy Rosenthal is one of them.” —Russel L. Honoré, Lieutenant General, United States Army (Ret.)

Author : Barry Jean Ancelet,Marcia Gaudet,Carl Lindahl
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617037962

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Second Line Rescue by Barry Jean Ancelet,Marcia Gaudet,Carl Lindahl Pdf

How beleaguered citizens created their own salvation when their institutions failed

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210026472488

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Tyler J. Kelley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501187056

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Holding Back the River by Tyler J. Kelley Pdf

A revelatory work of reporting on the men and women wrestling to harness and preserve America’s most vital natural resource: our rivers. The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America’s rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportation, for hydroelectric power, for fresh drinking water. Rivers are also part of our mythology, our collective soul; they are Mark Twain, Led Zeppelin, and the Delta Blues. But as infrastructure across the nation fails and climate change pushes rivers and seas to new heights, we’ve arrived at a critical moment in our battle to tame these often-destructive forces of nature. Tyler J. Kelley spent two years traveling the heartland, getting to know the men and women whose lives and livelihoods rely on these tenuously tamed streams. On the Illinois-Kentucky border, we encounter Luther Helland, master of the most important—and most decrepit—lock and dam in America. This old dam at the end of the Ohio River was scheduled to be replaced in 1998, but twenty years and $3 billion later, its replacement still isn’t finished. As the old dam crumbles and commerce grinds to a halt, Helland and his team must risk their lives, using steam-powered equipment and sheer brawn, to raise and lower the dam as often as ten times a year. In Southeast Missouri, we meet Twan Robinson, who lives in the historically Black village of Pinhook. As a super-flood rises on the Mississippi, she learns from her sister that the US Army Corps of Engineers is going to blow up the levee that stands between her home and the river. With barely enough notice to evacuate her elderly mother and pack up a few of her own belongings, Robinson escapes to safety only to begin a nightmarish years-long battle to rebuild her lost community. Atop a floodgate in central Louisiana, we’re beside Major General Richard Kaiser, the man responsible for keeping North America’s greatest river under control. Kaiser stands above the spot where the Mississippi River wants to change course, abandoning Baton Rouge and New Orleans, and following the Atchafalaya River to the sea. The daily flow of water from one river to the other is carefully regulated, but something else is happening that may be out of Kaiser and the Corps’ control. America’s infrastructure is old and underfunded. While our economy, society, and climate have changed, our levees, locks, and dams have not. Yet to fix what’s wrong will require more than money. It will require an act of imagination. “With meticulous research and insightful analysis” (Publishers Weekly), Holding Back the River brings us into the lives of the Americans who grapple with our mighty rivers and, through their stories, suggests solutions to some of the century’s greatest challenges.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on flood control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112111948

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Flood Control in the Mississippi Valley by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on flood control Pdf

Author : Andy Horowitz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674246768

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Katrina by Andy Horowitz Pdf

Winner of the Bancroft Prize Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year “The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina—the civic calamity, not the storm itself—as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature.” —Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster can be traced back nearly a century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing near the Mississippi, on lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers made it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than for African Americans. He explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana’s oil industry have been distributed unevenly, prompting dreams of abundance and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. “Masterful...Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we’re willing—and unwilling—to protect.” —New York Review of Books “If you want to read only one book to better understand why people in positions of power in government and industry do so little to address climate change, even with wildfires burning and ice caps melting and extinctions becoming a daily occurrence, this is the one.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Floods
ISBN : LOC:00123569453

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Flood Control in the Mississippi Valley by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control Pdf

Author : Ron Eyerman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477305478

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Is This America? by Ron Eyerman Pdf

From police on the street, to the mayor of New Orleans and FEMA administrators, government officials monumentally failed to protect the most vulnerable residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast during the Katrina disaster. This violation of the social contract undermined the foundational narratives and myths of the American nation and spawned a profound, often contentious public debate over the meaning of Katrina’s devastation. A wide range of voices and images attempted to clarify what happened, name those responsible, identify the victims, and decide what should be done. This debate took place in forums ranging from mass media and the political arena to the arts and popular culture, as various narratives emerged and competed to tell the story of Katrina. Is This America? explores how Katrina has been constructed as a cultural trauma in print media, the arts and popular culture, and television coverage. Using stories told by the New York Times, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Time, Newsweek, NBC, and CNN, as well as the works of artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and graphic designers, Ron Eyerman analyzes how these narratives publicly articulated collective pain and loss. He demonstrates that, by exposing a foundational racial cleavage in American society, these expressions of cultural trauma turned individual experiences of suffering during Katrina into a national debate about the failure of the white majority in the United States to care about the black minority.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1718 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015035798852

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1704 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3636678

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Supplemental Civil Functions, Department of the Army Appropriations, 1952 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : Major Robert M. Puckett
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786253385

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Engineer Operations During The Vicksburg Campaign by Major Robert M. Puckett Pdf

This study investigates the role that Engineer Operations played in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. A background study and description is made of the structure, composition, capability, and employment of engineer officers and units during the American Civil War. The Vicksburg Campaign is analyzed in detail to determine the contributions that Engineer Operations made to the Campaign’s success. The Campaign is broken down into four phases: (1) the Confederate Fortification of Vicksburg. (2) Operations in the Bayous, (3) the Campaign of Maneuver, and (4) the Siege of Vicksburg. Each phase is examined in an engineer context to determine what type of Engineer Operations were conducted and whether they were critical to that phase and the Campaign overall. The final conclusions derived from this study are that Engineer Operations were critical to the success of the Campaign and without the engineering capability the Union Army, possessed. It would not have been able to overcome the natural and manmade obstacles faced in the effort to seize Vicksburg.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Flood dams and reservoirs
ISBN : UOM:39015074951503

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Flood Control on the Mississippi River by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Flood dams and reservoirs
ISBN : ERDC:35925000564150

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Hearings, May 5 to 8, and 15, 1930 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control Pdf