Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blow did little damage other than beaching a few shrimp boats in the Gulf of Mexico. But when she moved inland over parched southwest Texas, her humid clouds cascaded rain in torrents never before recorded. On eroded land, where 1 in. of rain can mean a flash flood, as much as 22 in. fell last week. It was disaster...
Next day, just a week after Hurricane Alice blew in from the Gulf, the worst flood in Rio Grande history (153 dead and missing) ended abruptly at the new concrete face of Falcon Dam, 75 miles below Laredo. This week, as the river sank to only 9 ft. at Laredo, flood waters lapped up behind Falcon Dam and assured farmers downstream of irrigation in the searing months ahead. Hurricane Alice, for all her evil, had at last blown some good...
Acting to stem a further flood of wheat into storage,. Farm Secretary Ezra Taft Benson this week ordered a 13% cutback in next year's planting acreage. In what he acknowledged as perhaps the strictest control plan in U.S. farm history, Benson also ordered farmers to comply with planting allotments on all their crops for which restrictions may be set in order to qualify for price-support aid on any crop. Though he "greatly regrets" such action, Benson said he has "no immediate choice" under present crop conditions...
Under 1945 legislation, Congress had authorized the Army engineers to develop power, navigation, and flood-control features on a 100-mile stretch of the Coosa River between Montgomery and the Georgia state line. The money was never appropriated, and the Alabama Power Co., which already serves 520,718 people in the area, drafted its own plan. It offered to build five new dams (see map) along the Coosa, with flood-control features and provisions for future navigation improvement. Cost of the project: about $100 million for an additional 360,000 kilowatts of power...
Under normal conditions, Cogny could not long hold out without substantial reinforcement. The French are still counting on the weather. IndoChina's heavy rains will commence around July i. the Delta will flood, and both sides will have to stick to the roads or contend with a shoulder-high quagmire...