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Flash Floods in Texas
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Flash Floods in Texas Hardback - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Jonathan Burnett

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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.

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  • Title Flash Floods in Texas
  • Author Jonathan Burnett
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 350
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Texas A&M University Press, College Station
  • Publication date 2008-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781585445905 / 1585445908
  • Weight 2.65 lbs (1.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.13 x 8.81 x 1.2 in (28.27 x 22.38 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Geographic Orientation: Texas
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Floods - Texas - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007022335
  • Dewey Decimal Code 551.489

About the author

JONATHAN BURNETT is an engineer in the semiconductor field in Austin, Texas. His theoretical work related to hydrology and floodwater flows led him to a fascination with floods and a decade-long quest for information.

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