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  2. 2013 Midwestern U.S. floods - Wikipedia

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    In April 2013, persistent heavy rains caused widespread flooding, primarily impacting the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions. In a span of two days on April 17 and 18, heavy rainfall associated with a slow-moving storm system caused widespread flooding across rivers and areas, where rainfall amounts over 8 inches (200 mm) caused rivers to swell and crest, including the Mississippi River and ...

  3. List of Mississippi River floods - Wikipedia

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    The Mississippi Flood of 1973 occurred between March and May 1973 on the lower Mississippi River. [5] The flood resulted in the largest volume of water to flow down the Mississippi since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Both the Bonnet Carre Spillway and the Morganza Spillway were employed. The Bonnet Carre was fully opened between April 7 ...

  4. July 2013 Southeastern United States floods - Wikipedia

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    The 2013 Southeastern United States floods were ongoing flooding across the southeastern U.S. Flash floods began on the morning of July 2 and continued through Independence Day and into the next day. The hardest-hit areas as of Friday afternoon are the Florida Panhandle , northwest Alabama and the area around Columbus, Mississippi .

  5. These 12 Photos Show the Mississippi River Flooding That's ...

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    It's the latest incident of severe flooding in the American Midwest this year. From Esquire. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...

  6. Floods in the United States (2000–present) - Wikipedia

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    The 2011 Missouri River floods was a flooding event on the Missouri River in the United States, in May and June that year. The flooding was triggered by record snowfall in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Wyoming along with near-record spring rainfall in central and eastern Montana.

  7. Iowa cities along the Mississippi River are the latest to be ...

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    The Davenport center is located at 3908 West River Drive, and the Bettendorf facility at 24495 Valley Drive. According to Wilson, major evacuations are not likely to be needed, but that doesn't ...

  8. Life-threatening flooding problems to expand across southern US

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    Despite the upcoming west-to-east drying trend, it could take weeks for some of the largest rivers nearest the coast to drop below flood stage. Water levels on the Mississippi River may continue ...

  9. 2011 Mississippi River floods - Wikipedia

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    On May 3, using the planned procedures for the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, the Corps of Engineers blasted a two-mile (3 km) hole in the levee protecting the floodway, flooding 130,000 acres (530 km 2) of farmland in Mississippi County, Missouri, in an effort to save the town of Cairo, Illinois and the rest of the levee system, from record-breaking flood waters. [19]