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Prior to 1954, the heaviest rainfall event known in the Chicago area occurred on August 2-3, 1885, when 6.36 inches (16.2 cm) occurred over a 2-day period and caused flooding in the area. [1] Prior to this event, contemporary records considered 0.75 inches (1.9 cm) inches in a day as a "heavy rainfall" event. [4]
The Chicago flood occurred on April 13, 1992, when repair work on a bridge spanning the Chicago River damaged the wall of an abandoned and disused utility tunnel beneath the river. The resulting breach flooded basements, facilities and the underground Chicago Pedway throughout the Chicago Loop with an estimated 250 million US gallons (1,000,000 ...
1967 Brazil flood, mainly Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, flood and landslide Brazil: 1967 431 St. Francis Dam failure United States 1928 431 2015 Tamil Nadu floods Chennai, Cuddalore and Andhra Pradesh named 2015 South Indian floods: India: 2015 429 2002 Nepal flood, mainly occurred at Makwanpur, monssnal rain, flood, landslide Nepal: 2002 425
1951 Manchuria flood China Flood September 18 1952 2,336 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake: Russia Earthquake November 4 1953 2,551 North Sea flood of 1953: Netherlands, Belgium, England, Scotland Flood January 31–February 1 1954 33,000 1954 Yangtze floods: China June – September 1955 1,023+ Hurricane Janet: Lesser Antilles, Mexico Tropical ...
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950. Nearly 1,000 were injured. The EF5 tornado had ...
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927; Ohio River flood of 1937; 1954 floods of Northeastern Illinois; Great Flood of 1993; 2007 Midwest flooding; June 2008 Midwest floods; 2011 Mississippi River floods; 2013 Midwestern U.S. floods; July–August 2022 United States floods; July 2023 Chicago Area Flood; July 2023 Western Kentucky floods
The Spanish Flu, the second deadliest pandemic in history after the bubonic plague, along with the aftermath of World War I and ensuing political and social chaos, made 1918 a tough time to be alive.
This severe drought, combined with the extreme flooding in the central U.S., became the fourth multi-billion dollar weather disaster in the country over a 12-month period. 1993 flood 4