Download or read book Southern California Floods of January, 1916 (Classic Reprint) written by H. D. Mcglashan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Southern California Floods of January, 1916 The records Of precipitation have been collected by the United States Weather Bureau and many private parties at 156 stations fairly well distributed throughout the area. The records of stream flow have been collected by the United States Geological Survey and Coop crating parties, and these also include many records furnished by private individuals. The importance of these records to engineers who are charged with the duty of designing and building structures along these streams is Obvious and is impressively emphasized by the magnitude of the floods studied and the enormous destruction they have wrought. The engineer will be impressed with the fact that whereas damages to property resulting from failure of engineering structures may be evaluated as a basis for determining the limit of economic cost Of such structures, the loss of life can not be evaluated. Structures whose safety involves human life should, therefore, be designed much more securely than those whose failure would involve damage to property only. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.