Flooding Disaster
Flooding - arrive in overwhelming amounts or quantities or large amounts of water. We are going to talk about how flooding destroy people 's lives and homes around the world. One of the country’s worst flooding disasters occurred February 26, 1972, on Buffalo Creek in Logan County in West Virginia. It was about 8.00a.m a coil waste dam collapsed on the Middle Fork of Buffalo Creek releasing 132 millions gallons of water into the city and destroying everything.
Next were are going to talk about another bad flood that is the Mississippi river flood of 1927, on September 1 water poured over a dozen streams and flooded towns of Carroll, Iowa to Peoria and Illinois three hundred miles and fifty miles apart. On September
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The Neosho River in Kansas and six hundred miles to the east the Illinois River in southern Illinois reached their highest levels in history—an extraordinary occurrence in October, when rivers normally run low. Flooding in those states was the most disastrous ever. The Mississippi at Vicksburg had only broken thirty feet on the gauge six times in history. Each time, the following spring saw a great flood on the Mississippi itself. The river at Vicksburg had never broken thirty-one feet on the gauge in October. In October 1926 it broke forty feet.Precipitation continued into the winter over the entire Mississippi Valley, which stretches from New York to the Rockies and drains thirty-one states and two Canadian provinces. The US Weather Bureau noted that the average reading through the last three months of 1926 on every single river gauge on each of the three greatest rivers of North America—the Ohio, the Missouri, and the Mississippi itself, draining nearly one million square miles and stretching the width of the continent—was the highest ever known. The Weather Bureau later stated, “There was needed neither a prophetic vision nor a vivid imagination to picture a great flood in the lower Mississippi River the following spring. On Christmas Day 1926, both Nashville and Chattanooga—on two different rivers—flooded. On New Year’s Day 1927, the main river at Cairo, Illinois, broke flood stage, the earliest instance on record. In January Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville flooded.The saturated land throughout the Mississippi valley could absorb no more water, but water still came. In conjunction with the melting of a vast snowpack, virtually the entire Mississippi River system flooded in the spring of 1927, killing people from Virginia to Oklahoma.But the greatest concern lay along the lower Mississippi, from Cairo, Illinois, to the Gulf, and tributaries feeding into that part of America. The Gulf of Mexico once reached north to
Yuma’s Irrigation Intro: Yuma's irrigation in the past was horrible but has gotten better throughout the years. In the past there was always flood incidents due to the river being uncontrolled and overflowing. With negatives comes positives, in this case the hoover dam helped us control the colorado river which was and still is one our main resources. People would save large amounts of money because it was not needed to be used on distillation payments.
Did the Yuma project have both positive affects and negative affects on yuma county? Yes because some of the negatives help the positives such as the flood of 1916 helped Engineers of Yuma redesign their Laguna dam and make it more reinforced. With the farming of crops Yuma needed more water to be able to maintain their crops, they would need to build dikes or levees in the rivers to control overflow.
Every time a flood would occur it meant it had to be fixed at high costs immediately or more water would be wasted. For all the money spent on flood repairs agribusiness would pay off and provide a high income for the City of Yuma. It is said that $2.8 billion came from agriculture and similar industries. If you were to split them up, $2.26 billion came directly from agriculture and irrigation. More money and business meant Yuma began to grow and needed more people to work in agriculture and jobs related to it, one in four jobs were in agriculture.
Would you believe me if I told you that it was just as easy to swim in syrup as swimming in water? Well, it’s true! I know it seems crazy, doesn’t it? Throughout this essay, I am going to talk about the history of molasses (syrup), The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, and how we know swimming in syrup is much like swimming in a pool of
Mississippi River flood of 1927, also called Great Flood of 1927, flooding (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. of the lower Mississippi River (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. valley in April 1927, one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States (Links to an external site.)
“Along the upper Mississippi river between St. Louis, Missouri, and St. Paul, Minnesota are 29 locks and dams that divide the river into 29 flat pools designed to hold water back to maintain a nine-foot shipping channel”(Locks and Dams-Lesson).
The “Johnstown Flood” was a chaotic result for a small middle class family, natural disasters happen so much in one’s lifetime and can be emotionally crippling. This natural disaster caused many families and homes to come crashing down, all the townspeople shed tears that day as they watched their homes and loved ones float away with the water. The parents, wives, and husbands all looked in horror as they watched their family die in front of them. David McCullough’s story “Johnstown Flood” deals with a disaster that has major impact on the characters in the story. As we begin this story we look into the lives of the Quinn family, A small middle class family in the late 19th century.
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was of the most powerful natural disasters of the 1900’s in 11 states along the Mississippi River from Illinois to Louisiana. The flood lasted from the beginning of April, through May, June and July and finally ended in August. During the flood, the river got to be as wide as 80 miles in some places and submerged residential areas in as much as 30 feet of water. The flood affected multiple states and the country in countless ways. Some of the ways it changed the country was in a social and political way.
The word disaster is one of the most commonly used words in society and if something is described as a disaster then it is usually because something extremely bad or unacceptable has occurred. It can reflect a variety of individual disasters that can range from geological, such as an earthquake or tsunami, or it can be purely manmade such as a biological or chemical disaster. There is not a single definition of the word Disaster with the United Nations defining it as being a serious disruption to the functioning of a community or society (WCPT, 2016). However, others define it as a sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes immense damage or loss of life (Wright, 2013). The purpose of this assignment it to critically analyse a particular
I agree with Karl Shapiro’s statement: “The poet really does see the world differently, and everything in it. He does no deliberately go into training to sharpen his senses; he is a poet because his senses are naturally open and vitally sensitive. But what the poet sees with his always new vision is not what is " imaginary"; he sees what others have forgotten how to see." Poets really do looked at the world differently than normal people. A talented poet always have thoughts in the littlest thing that people tend to ignore.
The Frontier ran up and down the Illinois and Mississippi River for years until it sunk above Towhead island.
These floods occurred on the 11th January, after experiencing the intense levels of precipitation in the following weeks, then having the river breaks its banks at 2:30pm later that day. The floods went on for approximately 2 weeks, until they stopped in 26th January. New Farm, was one of the first suburbs to be flooded.
Ready or Not? According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (n.d.), flooding can occur in any part of the United States, during anytime of the year. Floods can cause drowning, disease spread, loss of shelter, and other injuries, which can be prevented (Al-rousan, Rubenstein, & Wallace, 2014). To reduce the amount of deaths and injuries, it is important for the community nurse to be involved in all stages of a natural disaster, such as a flood.