flooded, but they were blocking off 17th Street so that water wouldn't get up, and
around the Navy. The Navy had a lot of buildings along there.
Q ..
Temporary buildings in there, yes.
A ..
They were building sandbags along the back there. I stopped there on the way
home. A man couldn't understand why there was water on both sides of his
sandbags. They eventually found out someone had forgot to shut some valves on the
Reflecting Pool, and the water was backing up through the Reflecting Pool and
getting up on the wrong side of the sandbags there on 17th Street. I enjoyed that
experience.
With the Corps, my principal work was with the operations of the reservoirs for
flood control. I was in charge of that work. A lot of other routine stuff that flows
through an office.
Q ..
Well, the Corps didn't t have.
.
A ..
It didn't have too many reservoirs yet then. Is that what you were going to say?
Q ..
No. I was going to sav it didn't have too many hydrologists at that time.
A ..
Well, I don't know what they were, I suppose my rating was hydraulic.
Q ..
Yes, I imagine you probably were a hydraulic engineer.
A
I'm sure they were all hydraulic engineers then. I'm sure that's what it was--that's
what it was with the TVA and the Weather Bureau.
But Mr. Hathaway was an outgoing man that made friends easily. Even I think in
those early days, he had his eye on being president of the ASCE because he did a
lot of traveling, and he met a lot of people, and made a lot of friends all over the
country. Rightfully so because he was quite a man. He had, of course, the backing
of the powers that be. He got things done that most people wouldn't have been able
to get done like setting up those programs.
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