Friday, April 4, 2008

Spring Flooding In Mid-Western US Forecast, But People Still Build On Floodplains

ScienceDaily (Apr. 4, 2008) — Midwesterners have to be wondering: Will April be the cruelest month? Patterns in the Midwest this spring are eerily reminiscent of 1993 and 1994, back-to-back years of serious flooding. The great flood of 1993 caused nearly $20 billion of economic damage, damaging or destroying more than 50,000 homes and killing at least 38 people.

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