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Description
The incongruity of fire and flood. Flooded streets make it impossible to reachburning buildings. As seen in: Our National Calamity of Fire, Flood, andTornado by Logan Marshall, 1913. L. T. Myers publisher.These floods caused 527 deaths, the U.S. record for the 20th Century.
Photographer
Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas
Display Date
1913, Late March
Location
Upper Midwest
Collection
Weather Service
Meteorological Monsters
Floods
NOAA Affiliation
NOS
Keywords
Monsters
Floods