Talk:Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

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Contents 1 Name 2 St. Bernard Parish 3 Disputed tag 4 Flood Control Act of 1928 5 Affected Areas 6 Deliberate destruction of levee at Caernarvon 7 Most destructive flood?

[edit] Name

there are no other "Great Mississippi Floods", so we do not need 1927 in the title of this article. Kingturtle 20:08, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

What about the Great Flood of 1993? Jamesmorrison 13:20, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

This flood is known by the name Flood of 1927, so whether there are other floods is of no consequence. 68.188.166.142 03:15, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

As an unnamed event, the year should be in the name. Compare to 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, for instance. The correct name should therefore be "Great Flood of 1927" or "1927 Mississippi Flood" or some combination thereof. — jdorje ([[User_talk:jdorje|talk This sentence should be edited

Changed to "river flood" but I'm still uneasy about it. The Great Flood of 1993 article explains the statistics used to measure the flood's historical context. If someone would provide such an explanation for this article I think that would be best. Chick Bowen 19:31, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] St. Bernard Parish

If I can recall correctly from the New York Times article on the subject, the break only flooded the lower end of the Parish. In 1927 St. Bernard was still mostly farmland. Arabi and the Jackson Barracks area of the parish were still dry. I don't know about Chalmette, but the Islenos and African communities downriver in Delacroix and Plaquemines would have gotten the worst of the flooding. --Kunzite 06:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

It certainly didn't flood "all" of St. Bernard; I changed it to much. BTW, I read in a recent New Yorker article about the disappearing wetlands that the flooding from the dynamited breach deposited some 6 inches of river silt and clays on a good sized portion of St. Bernard, so it may have actually had some benificial effects on some of the wetlands. -- Infrogmation 02:19, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed tag

I removed the disputed tag; if something is still disputed, please explain, thanks. -- Infrogmation 02:19, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flood Control Act of 1928

Under "See also" is "Flood Control Act of 1928." It probably should be an external link. The Army Corps of Engineers has re-published the Act as Appendix E in the _Mississippi River Commission's Upon Their Shoulders: A history of the Mississippi River Commission from its inception through the advent of the modern Mississippi River and Tributaries Project_ by Charles A. Camillo and Matthew T. Pearcy. The book is online, and the Flood Control Act of 1928 is at <http://www.mvd.usace.army.mil/mrc/Upon_There_Shoulders/AppendixE.htm>. Filé gumbo 18:31, 31 August 2006 (UTC)filé gumbo

That's a subject we could probably use an article on. -- Infrogmation

Added wiki ref for this; it may soon become an article as it is also referenced under Flood Control ActDon'tKnowItAtAll (talk) 13:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Affected Areas

I think there may be a few missing states in the affected areas section: Oklahoma and Missouri. The listing of affected states, referenced from a full-text copy of the February 1928 issue of "Congressional Digest", includes the present list, plus the two additional states. Heidi Fitzgerald 04:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I've added Missouri to the list, and an external link to an Army Engineers publication that mentions two levee breaches that flooded 1.2 million acres there. At the moment, cannot find a "Congressional Digest"-based web page mentioning Oklahoma flooding. Publius3 (talk) 05:37, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deliberate destruction of levee at Caernarvon

John Barry devotes several chapters of _Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America_ to discussing the decision to dynamite the levee, detailing the key players, timeline, and motives. I do not know how to add the citation to the page, unfortunately, as I am a novice at wikipedia updates. Barry claims the motives were largely financial: the flooding of rural St. Bernard Parish would generate lower financial losses than a flood in wealthy New Orleans. Jehaun 14:32, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/050912/12leadall.b.htm

History repeats itself. 74.131.208.18 (talk) 07:31, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Most destructive flood?

I'm not certain that this is the most destructive flood in history. Afterall, it is pretty obvious that most of the damage attributed to Hurricane Katrina was flood damage and certainly Hurricane Katrina was more destructive than this. I don't have any sources to confirm any of this, so I will leave the information in the article, but it is something that may need to be changed. Life, Liberty, Property (talk) 13:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Italicized the word river under most destructive flood description. Don'tKnowItAtAll (talk) 13:13, 17 April 2008 (UTC)