A ..
It was a graphical relationship. It would just be a matter of, for a given area,
determining how many inches of rainfall and plotting that against how much change
in a river stage occurred at a particular gauge that rainfall fell above. It`s just a case
of accumulating the data and just plotting it out to see if there was a relationship.
It was just like those flood relation charts for the Rhine River. It was just a matter
of plotting the data and drawing lines through them, a graphical analysis I guess you
would call it. There wasn't any great--well, it took a certain amount of skill to
know when you could disregard something and when you'd have to worry about it.
No matter--there's always some points that don't plot good, particularly on the flood
frequency business.
Q ..
Something that goes off somewhere.
A ..
Yes. They call them "outlyers", I guess, in the flood frequency analysis.
Q ..
Those they ignore as the abnormal piece of information?
A ..
Oh, well, that's one way of handling it. The other way is to handle it, too, I guess.
You can't completely ignore it, but ordinarily you'd have to theorize a little bit
about it.
Q.
Did they really give you much time to do these kinds of things with your
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procedures?
A.
When I was in the Chief's Office?
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Q ..
Yes.
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No, not much before I was married. Most of that was done when I was with the
TVA and with the Weather Bureau. I guess I mentioned before that I met my wife
in Harrisburg. We were married in Pennsylvania. I still did some at home when
I was with the Corps. I think I must have written some while I was with the Corps.
I suppose I snuck a little bit in at the office, but not like that chap I was telling you
about the other day that was studying the transport of fluids and we couldn't get
him to do anything in the office.
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