The Great Crescenta Valley Flood
Subtitle: New Year's Day, 1934
By: Art Cobery with Mike and Pam Lawler
Contributors: Lawler, Mike; Lawler, Pam
Publisher: The History Press; History Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781609494490
Subjects: Floods; Environmental conditions; Biography; Flood control; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-156) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The Unique Geology of the San Gabriel Mountains; title: The Rural Character of the Crescenta Valley in the 1930s; title: Elfin Forests to Raging Firestorms : Nature's Way; title: Desperate Measures in the Wake of the Picken's Fire; title: Land of Contrasts : Droughts and Deluges; title: Floodwaters Trump Growth: 1914; title: Tenuous Interlude : 1926-1933; title: December Rains : Prelude to Disaster; title: Volunteers and Government Workers Meet the Challenges of Flood Devastation; title: Flood Control : A Plea For Help; title: Reforestation v. Debris Basins : The Army Corps of Engineers Wins; title: Are We Really Safe?; title: Epilogue; title: Closure; title: Flood Stories and Eyewitness Accounts.