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This was the second "1000-year flood" event in two years. 4 July 2018: 0 heavy rain Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in Houston, Texas, and the surrounding area, causing the cancellation of 4 July festivities. [31] 5 July 2018: 0 heavy rain Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in Canton, Ohio, and other parts of Stark County. [32] 21 August ...
Death count Event Location Year 930,000–2,000,000 1887 Yellow River flood: China: ... flash flood and landslide Iran: 1993 405 1998 South Korea flood, heavy massive ...
Mail service after the flood was conducted by the U.S. Coast Guard. The death toll was 115. It was the region's worst flood since New Year's Day of 1934. The result of this flood was the flood Control Act of 1936, which authorized the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a series of concrete sewers. [43]
The heat-related death rate in the U.S. (heat being either an underlying or a contributing cause) has increased since the mid 2010s. [4] Between 1979 and 2014, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to heat (underlying cause of death) generally hovered around 0.5 to 1 deaths per million people, with spikes in certain years.
Floods sparked by torrential rain in Spain's Valencia region have left at least 158 people dead and others missing amid mud-caked debris. Death toll from historic flooding in Spain soars to at ...
Death toll Event Location Date 1. 422,499–4,000,000 [49] 1931 China floods: China 1931 2. 930,000–2,000,000 1887 Yellow River (Huang He) flood: 1887 3. 230,000 [50] 1975 Banqiao Dam failure: 1975 4. 145,000 1935 Yangtze flood: 1935 5. 100,000+ St. Felix's flood, storm surge Holy Roman Empire: 1530 7. 100,000 [citation needed] 1911 Yangtze ...
Clean-up and rescue operations got underway in Torrent, a suburb on the outskirts of Valencia, on Thursday (31 October) following flash floods which killed at least 95 people, according to Spanish ...
Flooding is a threat across the United States year-round. In the first few weeks of July, the dangers of flash floods have plagued the Northeast, including Vermont's worst flood in over 100 years ...