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Flooding stays probably the most devastating pure disasters in the USA, claiming a mean of greater than 125 lives yearly, in response to the Nationwide Climate Service. Flash floods particularly rank because the nation’s high storm-related killer, inflicting billions in damages and displacing numerous households. Here’s a partial listing of some main flooding occasions from the previous 25 years:
• Texas Hill Nation flash floods (current) — Devastating flash floods brought on by heavy rains left no less than 82 folks useless with many others lacking, together with women from a camp close to the Guadalupe River. Search and rescue operations used helicopters, boats, and drones to find victims and rescue stranded folks.
• Hurricane Helene (September 2024) — This hurricane struck Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia, inflicting roughly 250 deaths. Most fatalities resulted from huge inland flooding quite than excessive winds, making it the deadliest hurricane to hit mainland U.S. since Hurricane Katrina. North Carolina alone recorded 108 deaths, with the storm decimating distant Appalachian cities.
• Jap Kentucky floods (July 2022) — Raging floodwaters led to 45 deaths, destroying houses, companies, faculties, roads, bridges, and water programs. The catastrophe left 1000’s of households with out possessions.
• Hurricane Harvey (August 2017) — This Class 4 storm killed no less than 68 folks in Texas, with all however three deaths attributed to freshwater flooding. The hurricane broken greater than 300,000 buildings and induced an estimated $125 billion in injury.
• Superstorm Sandy (October 2012) — This uncommon mixture of hurricane and different storms killed 147 folks whole, with 72 deaths within the jap U.S. Greater than 110 deaths have been attributed to drowning.
• Hurricane Ike (September 2008) — This hurricane struck southeast Texas Gulf Coast, creating storm surge as much as 20 toes excessive in Galveston. The storm induced greater than $29 billion in injury and was liable for greater than 100 deaths, many from flooding.
• Hurricane Katrina (2005) — The deadliest flood occasion previously 25 years, this hurricane killed almost 1,400 folks when levees failed in New Orleans. The most expensive storm in U.S. historical past induced an estimated $200 billion in damages.
• Tropical Storm Allison (June 2001) — This storm induced 41 deaths, largely from flooding because of 40 inches of rain in Texas and Louisiana. The storm’s remnants lingered for days, inflicting main flooding in Houston.
READ MORE: Looking closer at some of the deadliest floods in the U.S. in the last 25 years
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