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Helene continues to unleash its fury across the Southeast after leaving at least 52 people dead in five states, leveling communities, knocking out power and stranding many in floodwaters following ...
Rutherford County Emergency Management on Friday morning announced that "catastrophic" flows of water along the Broad River began overtopping the Lake Lure Dam, located about 35 miles southeast of ...
The dam ruptured after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of water. [3] With a volumetric flow rate that temporarily equaled the average flow rate of the Mississippi River, [4] the flood killed 2,208 people [5] and accounted for US$17,000,000 (equivalent to about $580,000,000 in 2023) in damage.
Dam failures are comparatively rare, but can cause immense damage and loss of life when they occur. In 1975 the failure of the Banqiao Reservoir Dam and other dams in Henan Province, China caused more casualties than any other dam failure in history. The disaster killed an estimated 171,000 people [3] and 11 million people lost their homes.
Miracle Hill opens shelters. Severe Weather Shelters will be open tonight, September 25, at 6 p.m. until Friday, September 27, in the afternoon.
The Dayton flood of March 1913 was caused by a series of severe winter rainstorms that hit the Midwest in late March. Within three days, 8–11 inches (200–280 mm) of rain fell throughout the Great Miami River watershed on already saturated soil, [2] resulting in more than 90 percent runoff.
At Rapidan Dam, the people around Barnes saw the disaster unfolding, too. Jeremy Jordan, who lives nearby, says he used to work on the dam’s power plant as a fill-in employee.
The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is a unit of the United States National Park Service. [2] [3] Established in 1964 [4] through legislation signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, [5] [6] it pays tribute to the thousands of victims of the Johnstown Flood, who were injured or killed on May 31, 1889 when the South Fork Dam ruptured.