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Plagued by flooding and inadequate infrastructure, residents of "secret little paradise" Jefferson Chalmers are frustrated by government solutions.
"Jefferson Chalmers' risk is not sewage backup. Jefferson Chalmers' risk is the river overflowing when the Great Lakes water levels rise, and so FEMA has placed it in a floodplain," Duggan said.
Portions of the state also was impacted by flooding on the same day, especially in Northampton County, where severe flash floods occurred and flood damages totaled at $7.55 million. [ 171 ] [ 172 ] [ 173 ] Overall, on all three days, severe weather damages, including some caused by floods, totaled $10.184 million and caused seven fatalities and ...
The Jefferson–Chalmers Historic Business District is a neighborhood located on East Jefferson Avenue between Eastlawn Street and Alter Road in Detroit, Michigan. The district is the only continuously intact commercial district remaining along East Jefferson Avenue, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The flooding destroyed roads and bridges and inundated farms. It came exactly a year after a previous bout of severe flooding hit Vermont and several other states. Sharp reported from Portland, Maine.
"Three drown in record Midwest flooding". NBC News. Associated Press. 7 June 2008 "Severe Flooding Grips Portion Of State". Indy 6 News. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2008-06-10 "Storms Trigger Deadly Floods". Fox News. Associated Press. June 9, 2008. Archived from the original on June 8, 2008
“This was a storm-related death,” Capt. John Lipcsak, a spokesperson for the fire department, told USA TODAY. 'Catastrophic, life-threatening flooding' predicted in Western North Carolina
Prior to the opening of Jefferson North Assembly in 1991, Chrysler operated the adjacent Jefferson Avenue Assembly plant from 1925 to 1990 at Jefferson Avenue and Clairpointe Avenue, between the streets of East Jefferson Avenue and Freud Street. [11] The factory was built in 1907 to produce Chalmers automobiles, and later Maxwell automobiles. [11]