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Strong rains on 25 October and 4 November caused flash flooding and resulted in the deaths of at least 17 people, including five electrocuted when a tram power line collapsed into a puddle. [28] 5 November 2015: 3 rain storms Flash flooding occurred in the Jordanian capital Amman causing 3 deaths when a severe thunderstorm lasted over 30 minutes.
Floods in Colorado include the flood of 1844 which filled the South Platte valley from "bluff to bluff" [1] to the recent Denver floods of 1965 [2] and the 2013 Colorado floods. Colorado floods are of two types: floods covering a large area resulting from heavy regional rainfall or snowmelt and flash floods resulting from isolated cloudbursts ...
This major flood between December 18, 1964, and January 7, 1965, [49] also impacted portions of southwest Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and especially northern California. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] In Oregon seventeen people died as a result of the disaster, and it caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. [ 50 ]
Sunday marks the 46th anniversary of the Big Thompson Canyon flood, which claimed the lives of 144 people and earned the unfortunate title of the one of the deadliest flash floods in Colorado history.
Flooding in 1965 and 1969. More serious flooding occurred in 1965, with Sevierville hit especially hard, the News Sentinel reported in March 1965. Parts of over a half dozen streets in Knoxville ...
Heavy rain fall in Boulder, Colorado has resulted in flash flooding. Massive amounts of damage and loss of property and life will result when and if mother nature unleashes water on the city. Based on the floods of 1844 (traditionally) and the 1965 Denver floods.
Heavy warm rain and melting snow caused more flooding in late January 1965, after the waters had begun to recede from the December flood. [1] More mudslides occurred in places that had withstood the December flooding, and there were more deaths. [1] Many streams in the northern San Joaquin Valley reached higher flows than they had in December. [7]
At least 158 people were killed and more remain missing this week in flash floods after intense rainfall struck Spain's eastern province of Valencia on Tuesday. The flooding is some of the worst ...