Washoe County Library System

Examines the nature, origins, and dangers of floods and discusses how to prevent them and protect against them.

An introduction to floods, discussing their causes and disastrous effects, historic floods, prevention, and how to survive them.

Describes the rescue efforts involved in saving the lives of animals affected by a flood.

"From the acclaimed author of Boyfriend Material comes a deeply moving romance about losing the life you always thought would be yours...and finding something beautiful in the wreckage of the past. Quietly heartbroken, Edwin Tully lives alone in the househe used to share with the man he once loved. He tends to damaged books and faded memories, trying to build a future from the fragments of the past. Then the weather turns, and the river spills into...

A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.

September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau, failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged by a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over 6,000 people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in...

Manny joins a herd of fellow mammoths, who struggle to escape a flood caused by the melting ice.

"Use the scientific method to learn how experts predict floods and other natural disasters."--

With the help of stunningly realistic animation, Nova takes viewers back to the Ice Age to reveal what happened when an enormous ice dam broke, unleashing a titanic flood that swept herds of woolly mammoth and everything else into oblivion.