Deep'n as it Come

In the spring and summer of 1927, the Mississippi River and its tributaries flooded from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico, tearing through seven states, sometimes spreading out to nearly one hundred miles across. Pete Daniels Deepn as It Come, available again in a new format, chronicles the worst flood in the history of the South and re-creates, with extraordinary immediacy, the Mississippi Rivers devastating assault on property and lives. Daniel weaves his narrative with newspaper and firsthand accounts, interviews and survivors, official reports, and over 140 contemporary photographs. The story of the common refugee who suffered most of the effects of the flood emerges alongside the details of the massive rescue and relief operationone of the largest ever mounted in the United States. The title, Deepn as It Come, is a phrase from Cora Lee Campbells early description of he approaching water, which, Daniel writes, moved at a pace of some fourteen miles per day, and in its movement and sound, had the eeriness of a full eclipse of t he sun, unsettling, chilling. The contradictions of sorrow and humor. . . death and salvation, despair and hope, calm and panicall reveal the human dimension in this compassionate and unforgettable portrait of common people confronting a great natural disaster.