territory of the United States is often exposed to the catastrophic effects of various natural disasters.This strong earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and terrible, and more from natural disasters.Also in the US there are floods.Although they are rare, but bring a lot of trouble, because most are catastrophic.
devastating floods in the US
main reasons causing floods, are flooding to low-lying areas of the relief caused by significant excess of the norms of precipitation, as well as violent storms raging on the ocean coast.As a result of heavy storms and floods are often in mountainous areas of the US, when instantly narrow canyons filled with rainwater.
spills Mississippi
in the country's history the Mississippi River twice coming out of its banks, causing catastrophic flooding.Flooding in the US in 1927 was named the Great, and it is entirely what it deserved its grandeur, and those monstrous devastating consequences to which it led.
start flooding was put prolonged heavy rains in the autumn of 1926.Numerous tributaries of the Mississippi became overcrowded with water and were ready at any moment to get out of the banks.Spring rains have resumed, and it was enough to April 15, 1927 the river broke through a system of dams and rushed to the vast expanses of the Mississippi Valley.Were flooded an area of 70,000 km2.Ten states in the country affected by the disaster, especially Arkansas, where 14% of the territory went under water.During the disaster killed 246 people, more than 700 thousand people in the country have lost their homes.
In 1993 flooding on the Mississippi in the United States again.His cause was again rainy autumn and snowy winter in 1992.In the spring of the river burst its banks and flooded more than 80 thousand square kilometers.The disaster lasted more than seven months: up to October 1993.Tens of thousands of homes were destroyed, 32 people died and damage caused by the elements tens of billions of dollars.
Revenge hurricane
almost every year along the US coast of the Atlantic Ocean is subjected to impacts of powerful hurricanes.The strongest of them also cause flooding in the United States, are particularly vulnerable at the same time the states of Florida, Louisiana, Texas and North Carolina.The most terrible and devastating hurricanes were: Galvestnosky in 1900, the "Andrew" in 1992, "Katrina" in 2005.
But perhaps the most powerful in the United States there was a flood in 2012 caused by hurricane "Sandy."It was observed over most of the eastern coast of the country.Tropical cyclone formed over the Atlantic, swept the coast of Florida and the northeastern states of the country.Most of the hurricane hit New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.
Hurricane Sandy proved disastrous.Millions of people have long remained without electricity, was destroyed by a large number of buildings, paralyzed transport.He claimed the lives of over a hundred people, including small children.People are suffering not only from the floods, but also from the many fires that have occurred in some cities.State was damaged in the billions of dollars.
