Word: valleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wheeling, 21 at Cincinnati at week's end (see map), the still-rising 1937 flood had already taken more lives than the 1936 inundation of the upper Ohio and Susquehanna slopes. For size and damage it was a far greater national disaster. In the lower Ohio Valley there never had been such a flood. The reason for last year's flood was that the winter was too cold. The snow stayed on the ground too deep and too long. When it suddenly thawed, the water ran off in a rush because the ground was still frozen. The reason...
...press conference that the possibility of building a national auditorium to shelter future inaugurations should be looked into. But when the chairman of the inaugural committee, Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson, next called at the White House, there was another matter to consider: the catastrophic baptism of the Ohio Valley and part of the Mississippi by an unparalleled flood (see p. 12). Admiral Grayson, as chairman of the Red Cross, Admiral Leahy, as chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Waesche as commandant of the Coast Guard, General Craig as Army Chief of Staff, Harry Hopkins as Relief Administrator...
There has been a high pressure area off the Florida coast for over six weeks, he explained, and this has been causing a steady stream of warm air to flow westward over the Atlantic and then turn north, following the western slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. Over the Ohio Valley, this tropical air meets with a current of cold air from the west which deflects it against the mountains and then forces it to rise...
...other factor which has made this flood a record breaker is the effect of an earlier flood in the lower Ohio Valley. This is acting as a water blockade, and is multiplying the destructive forces upstream. The rainfall in some parts of the Vailey has been as much as 20 inches since January 1. The significance of this figure can be better realized when compared with the record rainfall registered on Blue Hill for December, 9.01 inches...
...turbulent waters engulf city after city along the swollen Ohio River Valley in the worst flood in our history, the Cambridge Chapter of the American Red Cross last night made a special appeal for voluntary contributions from students...