| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.4

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"The Troubled Roar of the Waters": Vermont in Flood and Recovery, 1927–1931. By Deborah Pickman Clifford and Nicholas R. Clifford. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2007. xix + 229 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $29.95.
In "The Troubled Roar of the Waters": Vermont in Flood and Recovery, 1927–1931 Deborah Pickman Clifford and Nicholas R. Clifford examine the New England flood of November 2–4, 1927. Their analysis focuses on the flood's effects in Vermont and on the local and national recovery and relief efforts that followed.	1
The book begins with a vivid account of the flood itself, when heavy rains, in amounts ranging from five to close to ten inches, fell across Vermont. Rivers and streams, among them the Winooski and White rivers, overflowed their banks. The state's infrastructure was badly damaged, as was farmland, a result of deposited silt, rocks, and other debris. Flood damages were estimated at close to $25 million; the Cliffords provide other accounts that place the damages at $33 million. Although the 1927 spring floods on the Mississippi River caused more damage overall, Vermont's small population and its below average per capita income made the flood losses even more devastating.	. . .

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