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Flood Control. Simplicity wore a wry mask when the President wrote: "The Government is not an insurer of its citizens against the hazard of the elements. We shall always have flood and drought, heat and cold, earthquake and wind, lightning and tidal wave, which are all too constant in their afflictions. The Government does not undertake to reimburse its citizens for loss and damage incurred under such circumstances. It is chargeable, however, with the rebuilding of public works and the humanitarian duty of relieving its citizens in distress...
Skirting the southern end of the island, typhoon and tidal wave broke on the western shore, carrying great boats high into the air and dashing them onto inland rice fields in the vicinity of Nagasaki. The towns of Nakamura and Kojima were wrecked. Jetties, heavy laden barges, motor boats were crushed by the terrific weight of water or blown away by the screeching wind...
Then the spent tidal wave receded. Miles of sea wall, some of it only recently constructed, crumbled as the gurgling sea sucked it to its doom...
Wave. But on the west coast, almost certainly due to the Pacific submarine earthquake (see JAPAN), a tidal wave, said to have been more than 1,000 miles long and of mountainous proportions in height, spread death and destruction...
Eighteenth Day. Typhoon and tidal wave struck Kiushiu Island, Japan (see p. 22) on which is Omura, where the Pride of Detroit sulked in her hangar. So boisterous were the skies that the Pride dared...