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On May 3, using the planned procedures for the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, the Corps of Engineers blasted a two-mile (3 km) hole in the levee protecting the floodway, flooding 130,000 acres (530 km 2) of farmland in Mississippi County, Missouri, in an effort to save the town of Cairo, Illinois and the rest of the levee system, from record-breaking flood waters. [19]
Several hundred-year flooding events occurred in 2011. In North America, the following events occurred on separate rivers and tributaries: 2011 Assiniboine River flood; 2011 Lake Champlain and Richelieu River floods; 2011 Manitoba floods (disambiguation) 2011 Mississippi River floods; 2011 Missouri River flood; 2011 Musselshell River flood ...
The flood, rather than being a short term event, was anticipated to last from June through August 2011 as a result of attempts by the Corps of Engineers to regulate the release of water through 850 miles (1,370 km) of open river from Garrison Dam in North Dakota to the confluence with the Mississippi River at St. Louis.
A series of flood control reservoirs backed up by massive dams is a key factor driving the high water currently swelling the Missouri River. The abnormally high flow on the upper Missouri River ...
$14.2 billion (2011 USD) Hurricane Irene: North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Florida, East Coast of the United States: 2011 Tornado: 346 $11 billion (2011 USD) 2011 Super Outbreak: Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas and Virginia: 336 tornadoes 2011 Flood: 20 $2–4 billion [45] [46] 2011 Mississippi River floods ...
Mississippi’s capital city is in the midst of a water crisis as recent torrential rain coupled with existing infrastructure problems has cut off access to clean drinking water for most of the ...
A flash flood emergency has been issued for parts of Mississippi after torrential rains caused evacuations, closed roadways and forced water rescues across the region. The Weather Channel's Justin ...
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