While local rainfall certainly aided the disaster, the main cause lay to the north ... author of "Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America." ...

After extreme weather swept from the plains states to the Ohio River valley in fall 1926, levees began bursting in the Lower Mississippi ... flood zone, especially in the North and West, a great ...

The 1927 Great Mississippi Flood had a profound socio-political effect ... Over the years floods in Carroll County have wreaked havoc, caused historic damage, and changed our community forever.

The landslide caused bedrock to block the flow of the Indus River, creating a natural dam 500 feet deep. The dam eventually burst, releasing water at a rate of 540,000 cubic meters per second and ...