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...Heavenly Mud. The country around the little town of Lovington, N. Mex. got not only torrential rains but tons of window-cracking, chicken-killing hail. Power lines were knocked out, low-lying houses were inundated; in west Texas, schools closed and highways were awash with silt-brown water. At Snyder, Texas, an earthen dam, weakened by the long, dry spell, gave way; 50 oil-well sites were flooded out. Near Hobbs, N. Mex., 100 sheep marched into a flooded ditch and drowned en masse...
...damage is already tremendous. Great acreages of winter wheat in the worst dust areas are already ruined-drifted under or simply pulled out of the loose ground by winds. Pasture lands have disappeared under drifting silt or have been spotted with hummocks of tumbleweed and mounded dirt. Ponds have filled, roads have disappeared...
Similarly, the ocean is the key to the secret of the land, for undisturbed on its bottoms the recording silt of cons has settled in layers often hundreds of feet thick. Coring samples taken from the ocean bottom by specially designed cutting tubes promise revelations for the geologist...
...Wangaehu Bridge, underpinnings weakened by the surge of water buckled and sagged. Five cars dropped into the river, dragging the engine with them. A sixth teetered drunkenly on the edge of the broken bridge and finally tumbled off. The holiday passengers were plunged into a swirl of water, silt and crazily bounding boulders. One of the carriages went somersaulting for 2½ miles down the swollen river. The dead: 155. Christmas broadcasts throughout New Zealand were canceled to permit reading the lists of those who had been saved...
...this development program is the turbulent Missouri River, longest on the continent, stretching 2,465 miles from Three Forks, Mont. to the silt-choked mouth which empties into the Mississippi River, ten miles above St. Louis. Besides other names, many unprintable, the Missouri has been called "the most useless river there is." Government engineers, pointing up their hopes of a harnessed watershed, call it the River of Gold. Farmers who live by its banks and have fought its silt-laden flood tide year after year call it the Big Muddy...