Flash Floods In Texas (Texas A&M Nature Guide)
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: April 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781585445905
Subjects: American history; NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Nature; Science; Nature/Ecology; Texas; Earth Sciences - Hydrology; Natural Disasters
Description: "How many times have you heard the television or radio alert, "We are now under a flash flood watch"? While the destructive force of flash flooding is a regular occurrence in the state and has caused a tremendous amount of damage and heartache over the years, no one until now has recorded in a single book the history of flash floods in Texas." "After combing libraries and archives, grilling county historians, trekking to flood sites, and collecting scores of graphic photographs, Jonathan Burnett chose twenty-eight floods from around the state to create this narrative of a century of disastrous events. Beginning with the famous Austin dam break of 1900 and ending with the historic 2002 flooding in the Hill Country, Burnett chronicles the causes and courses of these catastrophic floods as well as their costs in material damage and human lives."

"Dramatic photographs of each event enhance the harrowing accounts of danger spawned by nature on a rampage. Together, the stories and the pictures give readers a vivid and lasting image of the power and unpredictability of flash floods in Texas."--Jacket.