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Yazoo City, MS, May 6, 2010 -- Utility services are being restored after tornado damage from the deadly April 24 storm. FEMA Public Assistance funds may pay a portion of restoration cost under PA Catagory F. George Armstrong/FEMA: Camera manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION: Camera model: NIKON D300: Author: George Armstrong: Exposure time: 1/400 ...
During the morning hours of April 24, 2010, a massive and long tracked tornado struck the southern side of Yazoo City, Ebenezer, Durant, and Hesterville in Mississippi, causing 10 fatalities and injuring a further 146 people during its 149 miles path.
The system of flood protection authorized for the Yazoo Backwater Area by the Flood Control Act of 1941 included a pumping system to relieve interior flooding. In 2008, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) blocked construction of a 14,000 cubic feet per second (396 cubic meters per second) pumping station recommended by the ...
When completed, the Yazoo Headwater Project will protect 1,209,000 acres (4,890 km 2) of land against flooding and will partially protect another 303,000 acres (1,230 km 2). Benefits of the Headwater Project are reduced flooding around the cities of Greenwood, Yazoo City, Belzoni, and other smaller communities within the Yazoo River Basin.
E of Valley Park to E of Yazoo City: Issaquena, Yazoo: MS: 22:46–23:35 30.15 mi (48.52 km) 300 yd (270 m) A high-end EF1 tornado destroyed two mobile homes and a billboard at the south edge of Yazoo City, with debris scattered.
Now, the area is experiencing historic flooding thanks to Helene and is largely underwater. ... A curfew is in effect for the city of Asheville, starting at 7:30 p.m. and ending the next morning ...
The tornado continued moving through residential areas on the southeast side of Yazoo City, heavily damaging or demolishing numerous homes. The tornado continued northeast through rural eastern Yazoo and southern Holmes Counties, causing intense tree damage and damaging or destroying a number of rural residences. Whole swaths of trees were ...
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.