The Little Book of Horrors by Steven Marr

Author:Steven Marr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Rivers giveth, and they certainly taketh away.

China’s 3,900-mile-long Yangtze River had successfully nurtured early civilizations and watered the fertile floodplains of Central China without human intervention. Then farmers cut down its trees and built levees to direct flow, making it harder to manage runoff. That would have devastating consequences during 1931’s extraordinarily wet summer. In one month, the area got as much rain as it normally did in eighteen months, flooding an expanse the size of South Carolina. Around 3.7 million people died (mostly from starvation and disease), making it the worst flood in recorded history and the century’s most devastating natural disaster.

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