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Control Number
61056
Date and Time of Latest Transaction
20110427105053.AM
General Information
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Cataloging Source
PAGASA-DOST
Local Call Number
551.573 H85f
Main Entry - Personal Name
Langbein, Walter Basil
Hoyt, William Glenn
Title Statement
Floods by William Glenn Hoyt and Walter Basil Langbein
Physical Description
ix, 469 p. illus., maps, tables
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 Term
Floods -- United States
Hydrology -- United States
Flood control -- United States
United States -- Floods -- Flood control
Location
DOST PAGASA 556. 16 H85f BOOKS HYDROCAB 1355 1 1355 P 0000-00-00
Physical Location
Department of Science and Technology
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
556. 16 H85f
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