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Tables of Contents for Storms, Floods, and Sunshine
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
Stuart O. Landry
Foreword
xv
Nash Roberts
Preface
xvii
Introduction
3
6
Ancestry: Dutch, English, Irish, Scotch
9
3
Bat Creek Neighborhood
12
8
Short Bark Neighborhood
20
5
A Student at Hiwassee College
25
5
Student at Fort Myer, Virginia
30
8
Assistant Weather Observer and Medical Student
38
11
In Charge of the Weather Observation Station at Fort Concho
49
5
In Charge of the Weather Observation Station at Abilene
54
10
In Charge of Station, Section Director at Galveston
64
6
Summer Hot Winds on the Great Plains
70
4
My Transfer to the Department of Agriculture
74
5
Cooperation of Mexican Weather Service with U. S. Weather Bureau
79
6
Temperature Forecasts---The Blizzard of February, 1899
85
4
Floods in the Colorado and Brazos Rivers
89
3
Cyclone of September 5--10, 1900---The Galveston Hurricane
92
11
Change from Medicine to Cyclones
103
2
Transfer to New Orleans
105
4
Floods in the Mississippi River
109
6
The Mississippi River Flood of 1903
115
6
Ordered to Honolulu but Orders Revoked
121
4
Art Collector
125
5
Care of Oil Paintings
130
3
Oriental Bronze Collection
133
3
Another Mississippi River Flood
136
4
Political Aspirations of Chief Moore
140
4
The Explosion
144
3
Hurricane Listening Posts
147
6
Professor Marvin Appointed Chief of the Weather Bureau
153
4
The 1915 Tropical Cyclone at New Orleans
157
5
Climatic Changes at New Orleans
162
5
Portraits of Americans by American Painters
167
4
The Corpus Christi Hurricane of September, 1919
171
4
Tropical Cyclone, June 21--22, 1921, Texas Gulf Coast
175
3
Studies of Destructive Tides Caused by Tropical Cyclones
178
4
My Book ``Tropical Cyclones''
182
7
Wireless Telegraphy---Radio
189
4
American Portraits---Second and Third Collections
193
4
The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927
197
15
Appreciated Comment by the New Orleans Item-Tribune
212
3
An Incident of the Great Flood
215
4
Comments on Tropical Cyclone of September, 1938
219
4
Tropical Cyclone, North Atlantic, 1944
223
3
The Garden of Eden and the Ark in America
226
7
A Voudou Queen
233
4
Observations on World War II
237
10
Reflections
247