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The water swamped yards and basements and shut down Hwy. 71 as part of the worst flooding in 55 years. A thousand volunteers helped during the crisis, with some even delivering sandbags by canoe.
Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park. / 37.53722°N 90.85028°W / 37.53722; -90.85028. Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park is a public recreation area covering 8,781 acres (3,554 ha) on the East Fork Black River in Reynolds County, Missouri. The state park is jointly administered with adjoining Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, and together the two ...
The Taum Sauk pumped storage plant is a power station in the St. Francois mountain region of Missouri, United States about 90 miles (140 km) south of St. Louis near Lesterville, Missouri, in Reynolds County. It is operated by Ameren Missouri . The pumped-storage hydroelectric plant was constructed from 1960–1962 and was designed to help meet ...
The May 2009 Southern Midwest Derecho was an extreme progressive derecho and mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) event that struck southeastern Kansas, southern Missouri, and southwestern Illinois on May 8, 2009. [9] [10] Thirty-nine tornadoes, including two of EF3 strength on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, were reported in addition to high non ...
From Gooseberry Falls to Minneopa, state parks felt weather's wrath. Heavy rain and flash flooding across Minnesota have washed out state park campsites and trails, damaged regularly used bridges ...
Vermont officials were calling the flooding the worst since Hurricane Irene reached the state as a tropical storm in 2011. "This is an all-hands-on-deck" event, Vermont governor Phil Scott told a ...
The Johnstown Flood, sometimes referred to locally as Great Flood of 1889, occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. The dam ruptured after several days of ...
Two children, ages 2 and 5, were among the dead, the sheriff told the Associated Press. Most of the deaths were reported at FRF Estates, a mobile home park, where crews continued search-and-rescue ...