History Of Floods
- In 1228, my great, great, great, grandfather
was in the Netherlands flood that was believed to have killed
100,000 people.
- In1824, my dad was in the Neva River flood
located in St.Petersburg-Kronshtadt, Russia. The reason it flooded
was because of an ice jam.
- My grandfather was in Henan Province, China,
when the Huang He overflowed and more than 1 million people died
and 300 villages were swept away in 1887.
- This massive flood in 1911 made 3,750,000
homeless and killed 100,000. This happened because the Yangtze
river flooded in China and created a lake 80 miles by 35
miles.
- On September of 1928, Lake Okeechobee in
Florida had a flood where 2,000 people died.
- In 1943 in New Delhi, India, three dams
collapsed that killed about 5,000 people.
- In March of 1974, in Tubarao, Brazil a flood
killed more than 1,000 people and left more than 60,000
homeless.
- In Sichuan Province in China, when my dad was
visiting the Yangtze River, a flood killed 1,300 people. 28,000
were injured and $1.1 billion was estimated in property damage on
July 1981.
- I was in the April 30, 1991, Bangladesh flood
where 150,000 people were killed and $1 billion was estimated in
property damage.
- In the summer of 1993, I went to save people
from the Mississippi-Missouri River. It flooded with more than 30
deaths and billions of dollars of crop loss and property
damage.
These are some of the most dangerous floods that
happened around the world.
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