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Central and southwestern Indiana was particularly hard hit by flooding along the Ohio River and its tributaries; damages were expected to make the flooding the costliest disaster in the history of the state. Starting on June 4, 2008, rain soaked parts of south-central Indiana, leading to initial floods in and around Bloomington. Additional rain ...
Several river gauges throughout the Midwest and southeast were in major flood stage. [9] Some of the worst river flooding of the event occurred in the western suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, along the Meramec River; [10] 451 homes were damaged in this area. [11] River flooding stretched from Wisconsin to Louisiana by mid-April; some of the ...
Ohio River flood of 1937; G. ... Great Blizzard of 1978; Great Flood of 1913; Great Flood of 1913 in Columbus, Ohio; H. ... North American blizzard of 2008; S.
A U.S. Coast Guard boat crew searches for flood victims in need of help in Ottawa, Ohio. The Blanchard River was 7.5 feet (2 m) above flood level in Findlay, the highest level since 1913. A 92-year-old man drowned trying to get to safety after his car became trapped in floodwater near Findlay, where water poured into the downtown area from the ...
The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m 3 /s); [1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m 3 /s). [66] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
The Ohio River was at 50 feet at the time of the photograph. According to the National Weather Service, at flood stages near 50 feet water begins to cover parts of Kellogg Avenue from east of ...
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 ...
The north side of Riverside Drive has a variety of architectural styles and is mostly residential. Unlike the other prominent streets, Riverside drive is outside the flood wall that surrounds most of the city and was built two feet higher than the height the Ohio River flood of 1937. [13] Grisamore House