Preliminary peak stage and streamflow data for selected U.S. Geological Survey streamgaging stations in North and South Carolina for flooding following Hurricane Florence, September 2018

The Hydraulic Engineering Circular 18 (HEC-18) pier scour prediction equation is the most widely used pier scour prediction equation in the United States, if not the world, and understanding the equation’s performance is of interest to the bridge engineering community. Previous evaluations of the equation’s performance were limited to smaller sets of laboratory and field data. In 2014, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the South Carolina Department of Transportation, published a U.S. Geological Survey pier scour database, consisting of 569 laboratory and 1,858 field measurements of pier scour. This extensive database is a valuable resource for evaluating the HEC-18 pier scour equation, which is the primary focus of the investigation presented in this paper. Although comparing predicted and measured values is a common method for evaluating the performance of a prediction equation, the present investigation used a different approach and evaluated the HEC-18 equation by comparing selected data from the USGS database with the dimensionless relationship used to develop the original equation. This alternative approach highlighted some of the strengths and weaknesses of the equation, which are not as evident in the more common approach of comparing predicted and measured values. The findings of the investigation are presented in this paper.

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Bartram, William: Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws

Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL) ◽

10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_4876-1 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-2

Author(s):

Christoph Irmscher

Keyword(s):

South Carolina ◽

East And West ◽

North And South

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The Rough South of Ron Rash

Rough South, Rural South ◽

10.14325/mississippi/9781496802330.003.0010 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas Ærvold Bjerre

Keyword(s):

South Carolina ◽

Working Class ◽

Family Background ◽

Lower Class ◽

White Trash ◽

Poor Whites ◽

The People ◽

Almost All ◽

Violent Conflicts ◽

North And South

This chapter discusses the fiction of Ron Rash, who sets almost all of his work—poems, short stories, and novels—in the Carolinas and focuses on the people who live or have lived there. Rash was born in Chester, South Carolina, in 1953, and grew up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. While not a direct heir to the “Southern Redneck and White Trash” tradition, Rash fills his work with characters firmly embedded in the Rough South—mostly lower-class whites from Appalachian North and South Carolina. Rash's work illustrates his concern with working-class characters and their struggles, with poor whites and their violent conflicts. His interest in the working class reflects his own family background. Rash published his first collection of poetry, Eureka Mill, in 1998. He also wrote novels that depict violence, such as One Foot in Eden, The World Made Straight, and Serena.

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Language of The Southern Highlanders

PMLA ◽

10.2307/457775 ◽

1931 ◽

Vol 46 (4) ◽

pp. 1302-1322

Author(s):

Josiah Combs

Keyword(s):

South Carolina ◽

West Virginia ◽

Old English ◽

British Isles ◽

The Past ◽

Shenandoah Valley ◽

Different Types ◽

Early English ◽

North And South

The region inhabited by the Southern Highlanders has been called the Southern Mountains, Appalachian America, Elizabethan America, Shakespearian America, and so on. Its inhabitants have been referred to as “our contemporary ancestors.” The language of these people has been labeled Old English, Early English, Elizabethan English, Scottish, Irish, Scotch-Irish. Roughly speaking, the region extends from Maryland to northern Alabama, including parts of Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. Its area is about that of the British Isles, and its population around five millions. Our study can not therefore be complete or exhaustive. The investigation is made more difficult by the fact that the highlander's language varies in different sections of the highlands, and frequently even in the same community. In West Virginia and in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia numerous Scottish survivals are found; further south they are not common. Thus one meets with different types of dialect in the novels of Charles Egbert Craddock, for Tennessee, Will N. Harben, for Georgia, John Fox, Jr., for Kentucky and Virginia, and Lucy Furman, for Kentucky. The language of Percy McKaye's plays is in no way similar to that of any section of the Southern highlands. The linguistic peculiarities noted in this study have been picked up here and there over the highland section during the past twenty years; as a high-lander from Kentucky, I had heard many of them myself from childhood.

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