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Gov. Blanchard declared the flooding to be the worst in state history. 2. The November gubernatorial election in which James Blanchard won re-election with 68% of the vote. Republican William Lucas, the first African-American candidate for the office, received 31% of the vote. The margin was the largest landslide in Michigan in six decades. 3.
7.1 Michigan flood – April/May 1960. 7.2 New Hampshire flood – April 1960. ... Napa River flood of 1986; Red River flood, 1997; Tropical Storm Alberto (1994)
The next day, water levels were predicted to reach 38 feet: four feet higher than the flood of 1986. [11] National Guard units and a FEMA team were brought in to assist. The Tridge is a three-way footbridge at the confluence of the Tittabawassee and Chippewa rivers
The “catastrophic" failure of two dams in central Michigan unleashed swirling floodwaters that prompted the evacuation of more than 10,000 people — with some regions bracing for a record high ...
The evacuations in Michigan followed days of heavy rains in parts of the Midwest that also brought flooding to Chicago and other parts of Illinois, as well as Ohio and other states.
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The most notable flooding occurred in 1986, 1997, 2017, and 2023. [12] The 1997 storm was the largest recorded event on the Cosumnes River, with peak flow of 97,000 cubic feet per second at the Michigan Bar stream gauge [13] estimated to be close to a 200-year event. Many Cosumnes levees breached during this storm.
Flooding along the river has three causes: heavy rains, ice dams developing during spring break-up, and on-shore winds pushing Lake Erie waters upstream. The worst flood was recorded on March 16, 1982, at 15,300 cu ft/s (430 m 3 /s), compared to an average mean flow of 741 cu ft/s (21.0 m 3 /s). Flooding affects mostly the lowest portions of ...