Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis had escaped serious damage as the highest Mississippi flood crest in 103 years swept by (TIME, July 7). But south of St. Louis the little waterfront towns waited, fought the flood and passed the word downriver to towns like Grand Tower...
...Started Runnin'." "It started breakin' in one place, then another," said leathery, 60-year-old Fisherman John Quails, a flood veteran. "Then I heard a boy hollerin' up the way a piece, and I seen it was all over. We started runnin' and the water was right at our heels...
...morning, some 600 of Grand Tower's 1,000 citizens were perched in the school building, the Methodist or Baptist churches, or in tents on the block-square island of high ground. Around them lay the deepest flood water in local history. They had brought portable oil stoves, bedding and other necessities to the island. The Coast Guard boat brought supplies every morning; the movie house rowed in a new film every night. The State Health Department vaccinated everybody for typhoid and smallpox...
...down the ravaged Mississippi Valley last week, at least 48,000 refugees straggled back from the hills to homes and farms reeking with flood muck. Truck gardens were gone. Livestock was drowned. In 40 days, at least 4,000,000 acres of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois had suffered an estimated $500 million damage-a cost only 25% below that of TVA, and slightly less than the money spent on Mississippi flood control in the last 16 years...
...Mississippi Valley was not the only part of the Midwest in serious trouble last week. A million and a half acres of rich corn soil had been drowned out by rain that had fallen all but nine days during the month of June. The Missouri was 10.3 feet above flood stage and still rising. In Iowa, Agriculture Department experts called erosion losses (over 5 million acres) the worst in corn-belt history...