Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Numerous European insurance firms listed as "acts of God" the remarkable series of disasters, chiefly due to floods, which have caused incalculable damage throughout Europe during the past fortnight (TIME, Jan. 11). The flood situation threw immense numbers of workers out of employment, and caused acute distress throughout communities along almost every river of note in Europe. New developments...
Great Britain. The Thames flooded the gardens of Windsor Castle, and forced the abandonment of Eton, famed British public school. Londoners rubbed their eyes as "a beautiful bungalow" floated past the squalid Limehouse docks. Indefatigable vicars rounded up their flocks and conveyed them to Sunday service in punts. The general flood situation improved notably...
France. M. Anatole de Monzie, Minister of Public Works, announced late in the week that the Seine was at length subsiding; but that the suburbs of Paris have already suffered a flood damage of at least 500 million francs ($17,500,000). The subways continued to run, being kept dry by emergency pumps. Throughout the week the heights of Montmartre were stormed by a veritable horde of rats, which swarmed up from flooded cellars in the lower quarters of the city...
Roumania. At least 50 persons lost their lives in the Roumanian floods. At Keresztes five women fled to the roof of a house which presently burst into flames because of the overturning of a stove. To escape being roasted alive, they leaped into the flood, which surged up to the second story, and were drowned. Scores of houses were swept away in the Torda district...
...high as a six-story building piled up in the Theiss River. The Hungarian army expended three-fourths of the stock of ammunition allowed to it under existing treaties in a vain effort to shoot up this veritable iceberg, which caused the famed Tokay wine region to suffer a flood loss of ten billion crowns ($100,000). Angry Hungarians ran about shrieking that the Roumanian Government had aggravated the floods by opening certain sluice gates in violation of the Treaty of the Trianon...