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Heartbreaking images show how a picturesque North Carolina mountain village was all but wiped off the map by Hurricane ... mountain town destroyed by Hurricane Helene as death toll surpasses 100 ...
International Savings & Exchange Bank Building (1954): Demolished by the city government of Los Angeles. [3] MGM Silent and Early Sound Film Archive (1965): A fire in one of the studio's archival vaults destroyed the only copies of hundreds of silent and early sound era MGM films. [4] Richfield Tower (1969): Demolished to clear site for City ...
Adamsville, never rebuilt after being largely destroyed by a flood. Alamo Crossing, Submerged in Alamo Lake. [7] Aubrey Landing, flooded during the formation of Lake Havasu. [8] Castle Dome Landing, submerged in Martinez Lake. [9] [10] Colorado City, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862; La Laguna, the former site is underneath Mittry Lake.
A publication of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1949 stated property damage reached $102.7 million (1949 value), 250,000 acres of farmland were flooded, 20,000 acres of land were damaged or destroyed, and at least 16 died in the flood (the phrasing suggests these were deaths from the Vanport community); estimates for total deaths from the flood ...
Photos of the disaster, which will likely rank as the most destructive in L.A. history, capture the apocalyptic scale of destruction and heartbreak left in its wake.
An aerial view of utility vehicles parked near beachfront homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire as wildfires cause damage and loss through the L.A. region on Jan. 13, 2025 in Malibu, California.
Six people in Bergens died instantly and two more later expired of their injuries; of the 16 remaining injured, at least four more died to make the final death toll 12 at Bergens. Farther along the path, the tornado destroyed numerous homes in the village of Old Democrat, located 4 mi (6.4 km) northeast of Dora, killing two more people there.
A car drives past homes and vehicles destroyed by the Palisades Fire at the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) AccuWeather's ...