Swimming in the Floodwaters

ID: 1311 ~ Source: Stem, Alva, interviewed by Mark Firmin, January 9, 2009, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Alva Stem remembers diving into the high floodwaters during the 1936 flood.

This file appears in: 1936 Flood

By Amanda Sawyer
Prior to local and federal efforts in the mid-twentieth century to control rivers through the construction of dams, the Brazos River routinely overflowed its banks. In 1913, the most violent flood to…