Monday, 8 May 2017

Dedicated to the people worldwide battling flood waters



This year there is more devastation from floods than ever - in Canada, the USA, Indonesia, Peru, Australia, Dominican Republic... Yesterday I spent the whole day watching from afar the citizens of my hometown in Quebec try to save their homes, it is heartbreaking. Not just working around the clock to try to keep the waters out of their homes, but to think what they will have to face after. Some homes have been sitting in water since mid April and it is expected to get worse before it gets better.





Here are accounts of historic floods.



Some of the reports contain names of people who lost lives or property.





Relevant Links

The Flood List

Report of the Special Committee on Inundation appointed by the Council of the City of Montreal, on the 14th January, 1884

The Barrie Flood of 1890

Report of the secretary of the Flood Relief Commission:appointed to distribute the funds contributed for the relief of sufferers in Pennsylvania, by the flood of May 31st and June 1st, 1889

Official report of the relief furnished to the Ohio River flood sufferers, Evansville, Ind., to Cairo, Ills, with the two trips of the U.S. relief boat Carrie Caldwell, February and March, 1884

Report of the Citizens' executive relief committee of the cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, for the relief of the sufferers by the flood, of July 26th, 1874

Wyoming Valley Flood Scenes, March 2, 1902

The Arkansas River flood of June 3-5, 1921

Notes of the flood at the Red River in 1852

Inundation of York, Penn'a: a Graphic Description of the Great Flood, 1884

A Pictorial History of the Great Dayton Flood, March 25, 26,27, 1913

Report of Cherry Creek Flood Commission, May 1913

Pictures of the floods: Southern Queensland, Feb 1893

Report of the Passaic River flood district commission: Dec 1, 1906

Historical souvenir of the Fremont flood, March 25-28, 1913

Official souvenir history of the Shenango Valley flood, March 25-28, 1913

More Flood souvenirs books at HathiTrust

Report of the Royal Commission Inquiry into the Grand River Flood 1974

The North Carolina flood: July 14-16, 1916





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