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Control Number255086
Date and Time of Latest Transaction20140930032935.AM
General Information140930s |||||||||b ||00|||
Cataloging SourcePAGASA-DOST
Language Codeeng
Local Call Number556.16 H85f 1955
Main Entry - Personal NameWalter B. Langbein
 Hoyt, William G.
Title StatementFloods by William G. Hoyt and Walter B. Langbein
Physical Descriptionix, 465p. illus
Summary, Etc.Floods have been many things to many people. To Noah and his people by Deluge was manifestation of a wrathful God. To reporters and editors of the daily press, they are dramatic news. To those caught in the swirling mud-laden waters, they represent days and nights of terror. To Red Cross workers, National Guard units, or citizens hurriedly pressed into service to carry sandbags or to contribute money, food, and clothing, or to provide shelter to the homeless, they represent a call to action, a summons that is gladly met. To hydrologists, floods mean the immediate translation of measurements of rains, snow, wind, and ground conditions into forecasts of river stages and their widespread dissemination by radio, telephone, and the press. To river engineers, floods mean measurements of stages and volumes under the worst possible conditions, the study of ways to reduce damage, and the design, construction, and operation of extensive dikes, levees, flood walls, channels, dams, and reservoirs. To farmers, they mean erosion and loss of topsoil on barren or newly planted side-hill fields, and inundation and silting of crops on valley bottom lands
Subject Added Entry - Topical TermFloods -- hydrology -- 1955 -- Princeton, New York
 Hydrology
LocationDOST PAGASA 556. 16 H85f BOOKS hydrocab PAG-07-0773 1 1355 Purchase 2008-04-11
  
     
 
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Department of Science and Technology
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration556. 16 H85f
  
     
 
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