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Johnstown rebuilt its steel plants and homes, but failed to undertake flood control. The town was very vulnerable to floods because of 1) heavy rainfall (47.5 in. a year, 12 in. more than in Pittsburgh, 58 miles away), and 2) narrow, shallow river channels that did not carry off the water fast enough. When, on March 17, 1936, a great flood struck again, destroying $40,000,000 of Johnstown property, the town's 67,000 citizens as one man asked the U.S. for help...
Equipment was more than a problem: there wasn't any. Holland Smith started practicing with two ancient ship's launches whose engines frequently did not work. He experimented with Boat Builder Andrew Jackson Higgins on a fast, high, stout-bottomed boat that could bounce over shallow reefs and hit the sand hard enough to get men into shallow water...
...Higgins to build a boat that would carry tanks into water shallow enough for them to roll ashore. He tried an amphibious tractor ("alligator") that Donald Roebling had invented for rescue use in the Florida Everglades. For two years the aluminum cleats always came off the alligator. But it was the forerunner of today's amphibious tank...
...fish are spawned in fresh water, head to sea in their second spring. Grown sometimes to 15 lb., they return to spawn in their fourth winter. Ideal fishing areas are shallow stretches of slow-moving water, where the bait drifts slowly over sandy bottoms. Best fishing is in freezing weather...
...interrupts a comment on Englishmen-"I too love the earth and hate the world"-and in these words remembers a scene at home in Avila: "The broad valley remains visible with its checkerboard of ploughed fields and straggling poplars lining the straight roads, or clustered along the shallow pools by the river; and at night, in the not too distant mountains, the shepherds' fires twinkle like nether stars...