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On Today's Date: Valentine's 1895 America's 'Most Anomalous Snowstorm' January 2025's Gulf Coast snowstorm was impressive. This 1895 snowstorm, however, was a benchmark.
The Mississippi Flood of 1973 occurred between March and May 1973 on the lower Mississippi River. [5] The flood resulted in the largest volume of water to flow down the Mississippi since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Both the Bonnet Carre Spillway and the Morganza Spillway were employed. The Bonnet Carre was fully opened between April 7 ...
Crews begin clearing mudslides of buried roads Hundreds of personnel were prepositioned before the storm to assist in any emergency response and recovery efforts after the worst conditions abated.
An atmospheric river was pummeling Southern California with heavy rain on Thursday, prompting evacuations and school closures as heavy mudslides and flooding hit areas charred by the wildfires ...
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]
A public health crisis in and around the city of Jackson, Mississippi, began in late August 2022 after the Pearl River flooded due to severe storms in the state. [1] The flooding caused the O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, the city's largest water treatment facility, which was already running on backup pumps due to failures the month prior, to stop the treatment of drinking water indefinitely.
Crews from northern Mississippi are assisting with road clearing efforts in South Mississippi, with 24 snowplows and 75 maintenance crew members deployed. On Tuesday they plowed I-10, I-110, U.S ...
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) contracted with the Red Cross to provide survivors with meals and lodging in hotel rooms for up to six months. [41] By April 11, Mayor Walker said that 500 people—approximately a third of the town's population—remained displaced. [42] More than 200 remained displaced in mid-August. [43]