Too much water

The flooding in the Midwest is certainly tragic, but unfortunately, not new. David McCullough, of PBS fame, wrote an early book describing another terrible flood, one of the worst in America's inland. THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD was written when the last of the flood survivors were still living and describes the dam failure in Johnston, Pennsylvania, in 1889. One of America's most highly-regarded historians, McCullough's non-fiction reads like the most suspense-filled fiction. Other titles by McCullough include THE GREAT BRIDGE: THE EPIC STORY OF THE BUILDING OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE and PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS: THECREATION OF THE PANAMA CANAL, 1870-1914.