Master of Floods

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.