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These are U.S. towns and villages flooded by the creation of dams, destroyed by the advancing sea, or washed away in floods and never rebuilt. ... Salmon Falls, under ...
Approximately 200 millimeters (8 inches) of rain hit northern Texas. The rain fell on swollen streams and lakes as well as wet soil causing heavy flooding in parts of northern Texas. Marble Falls, one of the hardest hit areas, received 18 inches (460 mm) of rain in a period six hours. The headwaters of Lake Marble Falls and Lake Travis had 19 ...
The October 1998 Texas Flooding was a flood event that occurred across parts of South Texas and Southeast Texas on the weekend of October 17 and October 18, 1998. The storm that caused it was one of the costliest in the recorded meteorological history of the United States, bringing rainfall of over 20 inches (510 mm) to some parts of Southeast Texas and causing over $ 1.19 billion in damages ...
Record rainfall was wreaking havoc across a swath of the U.S. Midwest on Sunday, causing flash floods and forcing at least 2,000 people to flee. Flash floods in Texas, Oklahoma kill 2, 100s of ...
In 1998, the Blanco River had peak flooding discharge of 2,970 cubic metres per second (105,000 cu ft/s) from a 1,067 square kilometres (412 sq mi) basin. [ 1 ] Early in the morning on May 24, during the 2015 Texas–Oklahoma floods , the Blanco River experienced catastrophic flooding.
The flooding disaster unfolding across parts of Southeast Texas began days earlier, on Sunday, when the first rounds of heavy rain drenched the region and started to drain into lakes that were ...
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On May 25, Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of emergency for 24 counties as a result of the ongoing disaster, and called the floods the biggest in Texas history. [28] [29] On May 26, President Barack Obama announced federal resources to help affected areas in Texas, and signed a disaster declaration for Oklahoma.