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Most of southeast Florida saw up to 8 inches of rain on November 15, turning streets into rivers and knocking power out for more than 100,000 homes and businesses and closing some schools.. An ...
The partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, north of Miami Beach, on June 24, 2021. sparked a major emergency response. - Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images
The death toll from Helene, which made landfall Sept. 26 in Florida, had risen to at least 241 as of Saturday, according to numbers compiled by CBS News, including at least 122 deaths in North ...
Other destructive and strong tornadoes occurred on this day as well, including an EF1 tornado that killed a man near Donaldsonville, Louisiana and another EF3 tornado that injured three and caused considerable damage to homes, trees, and power lines in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Overall, the outbreak killed one and injured 40.
In the preceding 2004 season, Florida was affected by four hurricanes, including hurricanes Frances and Jeanne which hit Martin County and caused billions in damage. [10] In July 2005, hurricanes Cindy and Dennis hit the northern gulf coast, the latter as a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
The 2011 Mississippi River floods damaged casino resort buildings and infrastructure in this community. While the casinos float and escaped most damage, the hotels' towers and surrounding businesses are on land. Some of the hotels had major flooding on the lower floors, including the Harrah's Casino Tunica, which was under nearly six feet of ...
In his latest report, he noted that the landslide continues to affect new areas, moving in some spots as much as 13 inches a week. For decades, most areas saw movement closer to a few inches a ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Florida. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).