Word: cloudburst
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Came a sudden cloudburst. Roads were washed out. Impossible to move. Black night descended. Fitfully in their busses the travelers dozed. Came, out of South Africa, a noise like distant thunder, then the full-chested, long-drawn reverberant roar of lions in the bush, a sound no lion makes in captivity...
Ludlow, Vt., home of U. S. Attorney John Garibaldi Sargent, eleven miles from Montpelier, was completely submerged. Mrs. Sargent escaped injury. The Coolidge homestead at Plymouth, Vt., was not reached by the waters but not far away, Pauline Hall, an invalid, was caught by the cloudburst and marooned in an automobile. She died...
Mountain Streams. The official death list of the two-month flood of the Mississippi River is 114. Last week in Kentucky and Tennessee scores of mountain streams, creeks hardly with names, took probably as many lives in the space of a few days. Flooded by an eleven-hour cloudburst they swept away bridges, houses and villages. Hardest hit was Perry County, Ky., with some 30 dead. The estimated death list has passed 100, with reports from isolated mountain districts expected materially to increase this total. Said Sheriff William Cornett of Perry County: "This is undoubtedly the worst catastrophe that Kentucky...
...still in doubt about 1928, he should consult no crystal balls, no mystics, no political prophets, no embattled farmers?but he should go straight to the office of Professor Charles F. Marvin, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who is the last word on rain, snow, sleet, hurricane, cloudburst, earthquake.? Mr. Marvin could tell the President that the rainfall for 1925 was 13% less than normal and 1926 was 1% drier than normal. Unless the rain gods decree a pretty pattering on the window panes in 1927 and 1928, meteorologists must predict defeat for Republicans...
...typhoon brought a cloudburst into the thickly populated district around Tokyo with the following results: Twelve lives lost, 20,000 houses flooded (including 1,000 completely submerged), bridges swept away, telegraph wires broken between Tokyo and Osaka, 1,000 acres of rice fields inundated. Damage was estimated...