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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]
Upon making landfall in Mississippi, Georges brought a storm surge peaking at 8.9 ft (2.7 m) near Pointe a la Hache, along with higher waves on top of it, though the instrument failed shortly after the observation. The storm surge caused extensive beach erosion, with nearly 1,200 ft (370 m) of sand was lost, including 6 ft (1.8 m) sand dunes ...
A Mississippi hurricane is a North Atlantic tropical cyclone that affected the U.S. state of Mississippi. From 1851 to the present, 108 tropical cyclones have passed through Mississippi. From 1851 to the present, 108 tropical cyclones have passed through Mississippi.
A fossil hunter was scouring a Mississippi creek for remnants of the past when he came across the discovery of a lifetime — a tusk ... mudslide and avalanche risk in Northwest. Advertisement.
Hurricane Camille was a powerful, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone which became the second most intense on record to strike the United States (behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane) and is one of the four Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the United States.
A firefighter's car sits in the ocean, after being washed away in a mudslide off the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, on Thursday. ... Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama, according to ...
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 ...
Get the Madison, MS local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... Mudslides, 126-mph winds and feet of snow pummel California amid atmospheric river. Mudslides, flooding downpours ...