Disaster Assistance Legislation Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Flood Control 91 2 on H R 17518 and Related Bills
FBWCTPAL DISASTERS IX 1»«9 The two most catastrophic disasters, measured
in cost to the President's Disaster ... Hurricane Camiile struck the Mississippi
River Delta area in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast in Mississippi, with winds of up
to ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Public Works
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Disaster Case Management
MC MC Mississippi Case Management Consortium " Phase II ” Pilot Quarterly
Report MISSISSIPPI CASE MANAGEMENT CONSORTIUM Lead Agency :
Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Service Project Title : Disaster Case
Management ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery
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Army Support During the Hurricane Katrina Disaster
For almost a week , emergency management officials in Louisiana focused on
search - and - rescue and evacuation operations to the detriment of other relief
missions . Conversely , even though Mississippi bore the brunt of the hurricane's
fury ...
Author: James A. Wombwell
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
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Page: 267
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Flood Insurance and Disaster Assistance Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs of 93 1 on S 269 S 390 S 1495 S 1840 and and S 1889 June 11 12 13 14 and 15 1973
To illustrate our proposal we need only to look to the Mississippi River and the
Federal projects associated with it . Several dams and innumerable dikes , jetties
, and levees have been constructed at various locations on the Mississippi during
...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Federal Response to Hurricane Camille
By way of background , I think it is interesting to note that in the 28 counties in
Mississippi that were covered by the disaster , on the basis of the 1960 Census ,
33 . 7 percent were Negro . Of the recipients of aid in Mississippi , under the
special ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on Disaster Relief
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The Ohio Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1937
A Threatened Second Disaster Simultaneous with the havoc in the Ohio Valley
was the insistent threat of another major disaster in the valley of the Mississippi
River below Cairo , Illinois . New levees constructed after the Mississippi Flood of
...
Author: American National Red Cross
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Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors
Originally published in 1892, Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors is a collection of first-hand accounts by those who lived to tell the story of perhaps the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history.
Author: Chester D. Berry
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572333727
Page: 426
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Floods and flood control on the Mississippi 1973
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. FEDERAL HELP "WE HAVE virtually no
means of helping them unless the President declares these counties to be
disaster areas," said Mississippi's Governor Bill Waller, after an aerial tour of
flooded ...
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Reports of the Naval Engagements on the Mississippi River Resulting in the Capture of Forts Jackson and St Philip and the City of New Orleans and the Destruction of the Rebel Naval Flotilla
Immediately following the disaster on the berth - deck , it was reported to be on
fire , whereupon the gunner's mate , J. B. Frisbee , instantly closed the magazine ,
he remaining inside . All traces of fire having been quickly extinguished by the ...
Author: United States. Navy Department
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Page: 107
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Life on the Mississippi
The night before the ' Pennsylvania ' left, Henry and I sat chatting on a freight pile
on the levee till midnight. The subject of the chat, mainly, was one which I think
we had not exploited before — steamboat disasters. One was then on its way to ...
Author: Mark Twain
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Life on the Mississippi
The subject of the chat, mainly, was one which I think we had not exploited before
—steamboat disasters. ... We doubted if persons not clothed with authority were
of much use in cases of disaster and attendant panic, still, they might be of ...
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775452433
Page: 499
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SULTANA TRAGEDY THE
Disaster Struggle Triumph
... the rebel stronghold on the Mississippi . ” Fort Pulaski , which guarded the
entrance to Savannah , fell in the spring of ' 62 , as did Island No . 10 , which
commanded the Mississippi . BURNSIDE had effected in February , a lodgment
in North ...
Author: Arabella M. Willson
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The Writings of Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi
The subject of the chat , mainly , was one which I think we had not exploited
before — steamboat disasters . ... We doubted if persons not clothed with
authority were of much use in cases of disaster and attendant panic , still they
might be of ...
Author: Mark Twain
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Mississippi River Tragedies
The authors deftly uncover the larger story of how the law reflects and even amplifies our ambivalent attitude toward nature—simultaneously revering wild rivers and places for what they are, while working feverishly to change them into ...
Author: Christine A. Klein
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479856169
Page: 276
View: 368
Mississippi Libraries
Natural Disaster Analysis After Hurricane Katrina
With the levees in place , the lowlands beyond the river did not flood as often and
people began building homes . History of Flooding and Disaster Response The
Mississippi River flooded in 1927 , killing at least 1000 people and inundating 1 ...
Author: Harry Ward Richardson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
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Page: 311
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Fifty Years on the Mississippi Or Gould s History of River Navigation
By this disaster there were no less than sixty lives lost ; the names of many will
never be known . This was one of the early disasters , and was the theme of
conversation for months after the fatal calamity . Indeed , people , for a long time
after ...
Author: Emerson W. Gould
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Page: 749
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Soldiers Lost at Sea
A Chronicle of Troopship Disasters James E. Wise, Scott Baron. 4 . Salecker ,
Disaster on the Mississippi : The Sultana Explosion , April 27 , 1865 , 13 – 21 . 5 .
... Potter , The Sultana Tragedy : America ' s Greatest Maritime Disaster , 49 – 51 .
Author: James E. Wise
Publisher: Naval Inst Press
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Page: 280
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