Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week unwary residents along its banks scrambled to get out of the way of its onrushing water. In some of Jackson's finest neighborhoods, owners of $100,000 to $200,000 homes frantically heaved furniture and other possessions onto their rooftops as the river spilled 25 ft. over flood stage and lapped at the eaves. Residents in boats actually had to look down at nearly submerged street signs to know where they were. As 17,000 people fled, parts of Jackson's downtown business area were inundated. Mayor Dale Danks estimated damage at up to $500 million...
...situation is worsening," an hydrologist for the National Weather Service said yesterday. The river rose to 20 feet above flood stage and just a foot below the brim of the weakened makeshift dikes...
Brent Backwelder of the Environmental Policy Center said yesterday two task forces have warned of the flood dangers posed by stream channeling and the construction of dams...
...time to find out whether the federal flood control agencies are in fact increasing flood losses." Tom Varlow of the National Resources Defense Council, said yesterday...
...Army Corps of Engineers has estimated the current flood losses in the flat farmland of the Red River Valley at more than $26 million...