{"id":4801,"date":"2011-05-27T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2011-06-18T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:16:39","slug":"the-mississippi-river-flood-of-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-mississippi-river-flood-of-1927\/","title":{"rendered":"the mississippi river flood of 1927"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4803\" title=\"mississippi_flood_1927\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mississippi_flood_1927.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"1235\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[Map prepared by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.noaa.gov\/noaainfo\/heritage\/coastandgeodeticsurvey\/index.html\">US Coast and Geodetic Survey<\/a> (the fore-runner of today&#8217;s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) in 1927, after the Great Mississippi Flood of that year. \u00a0The map shows &#8220;flooded areas and the field of operations&#8221;. \u00a0The great devastation produced by the 1927 flood &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2001\/05\/0501_river4.html\">it flooded an area approximately equal to the entire area of New England<\/a>, displacing nearly a million people &#8212; \u00a0prompted Congress to pass the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvd.usace.army.mil\/mrc\/history\/AppendixE.htm\">1928 Flood Control Act<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flood_Control_Act_of_1928\">authorized<\/a> the Army Corps of Engineers to survey, prepare flood control plans for, and erect bigger, stronger, more complex flood control infrastructures along the courses of the Mississippi, its tributaries, and the Sacramento River. \u00a0View the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/global-pages\/larger-image.html?i=\/publications\/prologue\/2007\/spring\/images\/coast-miss-flood-l.jpg&amp;c=\/publications\/prologue\/2007\/spring\/images\/coast-miss-flood.caption.html\">full-size map here<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Map prepared by the US Coast and Geodetic Survey (the fore-runner of today&#8217;s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) in 1927, after the Great Mississippi Flood of that year. \u00a0The map shows &#8220;flooded areas and the field of operations&#8221;. \u00a0The great devastation produced by the 1927 flood &#8212; it flooded an area approximately equal to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[594,3],"tags":[612,593,118,595],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floods","category-landscape","tag-612","tag-army-corps-of-engineers","tag-flood-control","tag-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5061,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}