Rising Tide : The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
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Genres: History, Science & Math, Engineering & Transportation
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: History, Science & Math, Engineering & Transportation
Book Type: Hardcover
To a child of the Piney woods of Mississippi, whose parents were part of the high political times before living the Depression years, the Book was a wonderful history lesson. Remembering Grandfather's story of Bilbo's rise beating a drum of hate, was not so fun, yet, but the book also told the tale. Here lies also the recounting of many of the 'institutions' of the time, not the least of which was "We got the breast and the 'Help' got the back".
I married a lady whose parents game from Washington Co., and never left mentally, always speaking of the Percys, Paxtons, Winns, and many more. Their land unusable today without huge machines, yet it's still land alive with the smell of growing. Even in winter it lies ready to spring. To sit beside the great River at the boat ramp under the bridge to Arkansas and feel its power to move and change the world provides much meat to the Book's story of this wide, wet road through America.
Change scenes to New Orleans, long a hangout in my 60's raging. There is never a failure to get the taste of "society" so proud of itself. Galatoire's remains supreme. Listen to Randy Newman's "Louisiana" and "Kingfish" and realize that "Rising Tide" tells many great truths.
As I read along in May, 2011, the River was at historic flood stage, the raised and strengthened levees never having been tested since 1927. Friends in Greenville fretted and packed up many valuables. Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez, and nearby the rise backed things up. The Water flowed through four open gates of the Morganza spillway into the Atchafalaya River basin, this another part of the Book's story.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/mississippi-river-flooding-floodgates-opened-morganza-spillway/story?id=13613998
Did I enjoy the book? Yes, I did.
I married a lady whose parents game from Washington Co., and never left mentally, always speaking of the Percys, Paxtons, Winns, and many more. Their land unusable today without huge machines, yet it's still land alive with the smell of growing. Even in winter it lies ready to spring. To sit beside the great River at the boat ramp under the bridge to Arkansas and feel its power to move and change the world provides much meat to the Book's story of this wide, wet road through America.
Change scenes to New Orleans, long a hangout in my 60's raging. There is never a failure to get the taste of "society" so proud of itself. Galatoire's remains supreme. Listen to Randy Newman's "Louisiana" and "Kingfish" and realize that "Rising Tide" tells many great truths.
As I read along in May, 2011, the River was at historic flood stage, the raised and strengthened levees never having been tested since 1927. Friends in Greenville fretted and packed up many valuables. Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez, and nearby the rise backed things up. The Water flowed through four open gates of the Morganza spillway into the Atchafalaya River basin, this another part of the Book's story.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/mississippi-river-flooding-floodgates-opened-morganza-spillway/story?id=13613998
Did I enjoy the book? Yes, I did.
