Flooding of the Illinois River
One of the big rivers to burst its banks during the spring time floods in the Midwest, 2013, was the Illinois River. During April 2013, residents of towns like Peoria…
Author: Richard Davies
Pakistan Floods 2010 Infographic
Below is an infographic about the devastating floods in Pakistan during 2010, which we reported on here. At one point during the floods, “one fifth of the total land mass…
Pakistan Spider Web Trees
When it comes to the effects of flooding, it’s safe to say we should always expect the unexpected. For example, in recent posts, I’ve talked about the victims of floods…
Floods in Mozambique, 2013
Some time ago I wrote about the horrific flooding that took place in Mozambique in 2000. In that year, the flooding took place during February and March, and resulted in…
Denbighshire Floods Report
People in the UK might remember news of the floods that hit north Wales during 26th and 27th November 2012. Particularly badly hit was the county of Denbighshire in the…
Costs of Flooding
With the recent wave of floods across the US Midwest, it would be understandable if you got to thinking: what would a flood cost me? A flood in your home…
Midwest Floods Spring 2013
Springtime is here, and sadly that usually means floods for wide areas of the Midwest. So far the states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Missouri have been the areas most…
Flooding in Jakarta, April 2013
Three thousand people have been affected by flooding in Jakarta on April 19 and 20. The floods were a direct result of heavy rainfall on Wednesday. However, there are wider…
Merriespruit Tailings Dam
Merriespruit is a suburb of Virginia in South Africa, and on the 22nd of February 1994 it suffered a terrible flood because of failure to the Merriespruit tailings dam. There…
Brisbane and Queensland Floods 2011
One of the most devastating of recent floods in Australian history hit Brisbane and Queensland in December 2010. Thirty five people were killed, over two hundred thousand people were affected…
Mozambique Floods, 2000
The floods in Mozambique took place in the early months of 2000. Over the course of February and March, large parts of Africa experienced incredibly heavy rainfall. Flooding was soon…
The St. Francis Dam Flood 1928
One of the most serious floods in US history was that of the St. Francis Dam in 1928. The dam was built a few years earlier, between 1924 and 1926,…
North Korea Floods 2012
The floods which hit North Korea in the summer of 2012 were so devastating that the country is still suffering today. The ongoing problem has affected a lot of the…
Gundagai Floods 1852
Gundagai is next to the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales, which flows north westerly for five hundred and fifty nine miles. It is one of the main tributaries of…
La Plata: The $ billion floods
And so the clear up of the floods in Buenos Aires and neighboring La Plata begins. According to the National News Agency of Argentina, Télam The Municipality of La Plata…
Small Businesses and Flood Planning
There was an interesting survey done recently over at Vendio, the e-commerce specialist used by many small businesses and merchants. They survey a group of 600 of their customers –…
