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The Dam That Could Not Break: An Eye-witness Account of the 1911 Austin Flood

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I enjoyed the book for several reasons, be it completely correct or not, I have no way of knowing. However I believe it is as close to fact as one could get, giving the length of time since the event's passing and all.

My main reason for purchasing this book is that it mentions an ancestor cousin of mine who was looking for her mother that evening following the flood, and frantically continuing in vein her desperate search into the darkness.

Her mother was my great aunt, and being a history buff and genealogist (by addiction), and having, in the family archives, a photo of that family including her husband and three daughters as well as a short newspaper clip of, not the event itself, but of the discovery of mom a week later in the debris. I could not help but to investigate the tragedy more, and subsequently find this book

Many thanks to the Potter County Historical Society in Pennsylvania for helping me with this research and for pointing out the mentioning of my ancestors in this book.

This book puts a story to a photograph in my family archives.

This book may or may not be of interest just as reading material unless you have some historical connection or wish to learn more about this particular event in history.