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Adamsville, never rebuilt after being largely destroyed by a flood. Alamo Crossing, Submerged in Alamo Lake. [7] Aubrey Landing, flooded during the formation of Lake Havasu. [8] Castle Dome Landing, submerged in Martinez Lake. [9] [10] Colorado City, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862; La Laguna, the former site is underneath Mittry Lake.
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Galamsey in Ghana. Galamsey refers to illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana. [1] The term is derived from the English phrase "gather them and sell". [2] Historically, galamsey referred to traditional small-scale mining practices in Ghana, where local communities would gather and search for gold in rivers and streams.
$102.7 million ($1.2 billion in 2021) [1] [3] The 1948 Columbia River flood (or Vanport Flood ) was a regional flood that occurred in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada. Large portions of the Columbia River watershed were impacted, including the Portland area , Eastern Washington , northeastern Oregon , Idaho Panhandle ...
The storm destroyed the city boardwalk at Gulf Shores, with the cost of rebuilding expected to approach $300,000. Alabama Power reported extensive power outages affecting up to 100,000 customers. [ 86 ] [ 88 ] According to the Insurance Information Institute , storm-related damages in Alabama totaled about $100 million. [ 96 ]
The 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane [1] was among the most damaging hurricanes in the Mid-Atlantic states in the eastern United States. The sixth storm and third hurricane of the very active 1933 Atlantic hurricane season, it formed in the eastern Atlantic, where it moved west-northwestward and eventually became a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale.
River Thames 1796–1819 Wearmouth Bridge: Sunderland: 72 m (236 ft) River Wear: 1479–1796 Pont de Vieille-Brioude: Vieille-Brioude: 54 m (177 ft) Allier: destroyed in 1822 1416–1479 Castelvecchio Bridge: Verona, Veneto: 49 m (161 ft) Adige: destroyed in 1945 1377–1416 Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge: Trezzo sull'Adda, Lombardy: 72 m (236 ft) Adda
The primers also contained groups of 20 fuses as detonators. The connecting wires were 18-gauge copper (1.1 mm), insulated with guttapercha, for a total diameter of 9 gauge (2.9 mm). The lead and return wires were 12-gauge (2.1 mm), insulated with two coats of guttapercha, for a total size of 4 gauge (5.2 mm).