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The 2019 Townsville flood was a major flood event that occurred in the city of Townsville and surrounding areas, on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. [1] Townsville has endured around 20 major flooding events since colonial settlement in the 1860s, but the 2019 event was one of the worst natural disasters to ever impact the region. [2]
Townsville was declared a state of emergency that night. [4] Rain had eased a little by the 11th but still had some heavy rain pass through, Ex-Cyclone Sid, a weak surface low was still just to the north of Townsville during Monday 12 January and by midday the trough had redeveloped again and heavy rain moved into the city for the rest of the ...
The Townsville Golf Club is the oldest golf club in Queensland, having been established at Kissing Point in 1893. The club relocated to Aitkenvale in 1921, and then relocated to Rosslea on 18 April 1924. [7] During 2019, parts of Rosslea suffered during the 2019 Townsville flood.
Dozens of rivers across the region remained in a flood stage for months, including the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. The Mississippi River at St. Louis crested just shy of 50 feet on ...
From a 1939 flood that killed 79 people, to a 1997 flood that affected 50,000 homes in just one city, here are some of the past major flooding events in Kentucky.
2018 Maryland flood Just two years after a historic and deadly flash flood struck the region, another heavy rain bought around 8 inches (20 cm) in two hours to Elliccott City, Maryland, resulting in a disastrous that was assessed to be much worse than the previous one. This was the second "1000-year flood" event in two years. 4 July 2018: 0 ...
Over the course of a three-month period in the summer of 1993, a slow-moving and historic flooding disaster unfolded across the midwestern United States, leaving economic ramifications that would ...
This brings more intense rainfall and associated flooding, as well as more intense drought in many regions. It has been both predicted by scientists and observed in the last years and documented by the IPCC (International Panel for Climate Change 6th assessment report). [155] Before the rains started, California had been in an extreme drought ...