“Biblical-Type Floods Are Real, and They’re Absolutely Enormous”

[longknife]

Written By : Craig Newmark, September 30, 2012 @ “Biblical-Type Floods Are Real, and They’re Absolutely Enormous” | Right Wing News

The story of another scientist who was laughed at but whose truth eventually won.

Long before the discovery of the scablands, geologists dismissed the role of catastrophic floods in interpreting European geology. . . .

[J. Harlen] Bretz was a classic field geologist and a controversial figure throughout his career. In 1925 he presented the story of the region’s giant floods, seeing what others at first could not—and then would not—see. He spent his lifetime piecing together the story of how a raging wall of water hundreds of feet high roared across eastern Washington, carving deep channels before cascading down the Columbia River Gorge as a wall of water high enough to turn Oregon’s Willamette Valley into a vast backwater lake. . . .

Bretz was ridiculed until 1940 . . . A good article with lots of links @ Biblical-Type Floods Are Real, and They're Absolutely Enormous | Natural Disasters | DISCOVER Magazine

 

[skookerasbil]

We'd best get to work on our emergency arks then..........

 

[Old Rocks]

Well yes, regional floods resulting from ice dams breaking as the ice melted during the warmup preceding the present interglacial period. Hardly the worldwide flood of the Bible.

 

[waltky]

Tragic flooding in the Mid-west...

Floods swamp Missouri, Illinois; nine million people in risk areas
Thu Dec 31, 2015 - Towns in Tennessee and southern Illinois prepared on Thursday to cope with potential flooding after rain-swollen rivers washed out hundreds of structures in Missouri, Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma and forced thousands to flee their homes.

As of Thursday morning, some 9.3 million people nationwide were in areas with flood warnings. That was down from 12.1 million on Wednesday and 17.7 million on Tuesday. At least 28 people have died in the U.S. Midwest since the weekend in the rare winter floods, mostly from driving into flooded areas after storms dropped up to 12 inches (30 cm) of rain, officials said. Flooding in the Midwest usually comes in the spring as snowmelt swells rivers. While floodwaters from a number of rivers began to recede on Thursday around St. Louis, towns farther down the Mississippi hoped their levees would resist rising river levels. Southern states like Louisiana will be affected in coming days, the National Weather Service said. The days of downpours have pushed the Mississippi and its tributaries to record highs or levels not seen in decades, the NWS and local officials said.

The Mississippi River is pictured flowing at 800,000 CFS (cubic feet per second) measured by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in St. Louis, Missouri​

Workers in Tennessee were preparing on Thursday for the Mississippi River in Memphis to reach flood stage over the weekend. "We're moving things up high and we've got our generators out and got some extra water," said Dotty Kirkendoll, a clerk at Riverside Park Marina on McKellar Lake, which feeds off the Mississippi River. The Mississippi, the second-longest river in the United States, is expected to crest in the small town of Thebes, in southern Illinois, at 47.5 feet (14 meters) on Sunday, more than 1-1/2 feet above the 1995 record, the NWS said. Thebes village worker Bobby White said some sewage pumps were shut down to avoid overloading and that portable toilets had been supplied to affected areas. Most homes in the town, including his own, are on a hill and should be fine, he said. "Most of the people at the bottom of the hill moved out years ago," White said.

Scott Southern (L) and Aaron Walsh, hydro technicians with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), measure flood waters with an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler in Eureka, Missouri​

The floodwaters have closed sections of major trucking routes Interstate 44 and Interstate 55, with the latter expected to partially reopen on Thursday evening, the Missouri Department of Transportation said. The U.S. Coast Guard issued a high water safety advisory on Thursday for more than 560 miles (900 km) of the Lower Mississippi River from Caruthersville, Missouri, to near Natchez, Mississippi. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency to prepare for flooding. "All that water's coming south and we have to be ready for it," Lieutenant Governor-Elect Billy Nungesser told CNN. "It's a serious concern. It's early in the season. We usually don't see this until much later."

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Army Identifies 5 Foreign Military Drowning Victims of Missouri Flood
Dec 30, 2015 | The five foreign military drowning victims of raging Missouri flood waters last weekend were all officers – two from Egypt, and one each from Algeria, Jordan and Malaysia, the Army said Wednesday.

A statement from the Army's Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, where the five were in a training program, identified them as Maj. Mohammad Hassan Ibrahim, 32, of Egypt; Maj. Akram Abu Al-rub, 38, of Jordan; Capt. Ahmed Moussouni, 32, of Algeria; and Capt. Ahmed Abdelghani, 29, Egypt. The five were assigned to the International Student Detachment at the base and were returning from a holiday shopping trip to Osage Beach, Mo., when their Chevrolet sedan went off the road at about 8 p.m. last Saturday at a low water crossing on Highway U near Crocker, Mo., about 15 miles northwest of Fort Leonard Wood in south-central Missouri, the Army and local authorities said. Four of the bodies were recovered Sunday and the fifth was found Tuesday about six miles downstream from the scene of the accident.

Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long told the St Louis Post-Dispatch that "Some were recovered in the car and outside it. The last one was way down stream. It's just a very dark and rural highway, and I am sure they had no idea of what was ahead of them until they got into the water." A Missouri State Highway Patrol officer spotted the body of the fifth victim about six miles from where the trainees' vehicle was swept away, Long said. Missouri is one of several states in the central and southern U.S. that has been grappling with deadly floods following torrential rain storms in recent days.

A Missouri sheriff says four soldiers from outside the U.S. died in a flood-related accident, as storms take a deadly toll from Texas to the Midwest​

There have been an estimated 49 weather-related deaths in the past week across the country, with the current severe storm system blamed for 35 deaths: 13 in Missouri, 11 in the Dallas area, five in southern Illinois, five in Oklahoma and at least one in Georgia. Many died after their cars were swept away by floodwater. The State Department had withheld the release of the victims' names until their families could be notified.

International students at Fort Leonard Wood study alongside U.S. soldiers learning technical and tactical skills related to the service branches from which they come. The five victims had been attending officer education at Fort Leonard Wood's Maneuver Support Center of ERxcellence. Cheryl Nygaard, a spokeswoman at Fort Leonard Wood, said soldiers from about 50 countries have trained in the International Student Detachment. In a statement, the Army said "We are saddened by this tragedy, and our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims. Our priority now is to provide care and support to those affected by this tragic event."

Army Identifies 5 Foreign Military Drowning Victims of Missouri Flood | Military.com

 

[waltky]

Cajun country flooded...

Unusually widespread flooding wreaks havoc across Louisiana and Mississippi
Mon, Mar 14, 2016 - As the Leaf River rose north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 26-year-old Rebecca Bruce and her fiance grabbed what they could and left the shed where they live. The water was more than 0.6m deep indoors when they left, she said.

“We lost everything,” Bruce said on Saturday. “I’ve got a book bag full of dirty clothes, and I was lucky to get that.” Bruce was among about 20 people in a Red Cross shelter in the Forrest County Community Center on Saturday, as creeks and rivers continued to rise after torrential rains pounded the deep south. It was one of nine shelters open in Mississippi and 24 in Louisiana. Downpours — part of a system affecting Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama — submerged roads and cars, washed out bridges and forced residents to flee homes. At least three people have died in Louisiana. Mississippi officials were still looking for two missing fishermen, but had no reports of injuries or deaths, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) head Lee Smithson said.

A sheriff’s deputy was hospitalized after his patrol car skidded into a ditch on Friday night, but is now recovering at home, Hancock County Chief Deputy Don Bass told the Sun Herald. MEMA reported major damage to 95 homes, minor damage to 277 others, with reports still coming in from 41 of the state’s 82 counties. Smithson said Mississippi is dealing with the most widespread flooding since Hurricane Isaac dumped more than 0.6m of rain throughout the state. However, “it has not been quite as rough a day as we thought it was going to be today. It looks as if the significant rainstorms for the Mississippi Gulf Coast have not materialized,” he added.

Officials had been afraid that as many as 1,000 homes might flood in Forrest County, Mississippi, where the Leaf River was expected to crest yesterday at 9m, but Smithson said the number likely to be affected was looking more like 100 to 150. About 75 raised fishing camps in Pearl River County, Mississippi, were likely to be surrounded by water, he said. In Petal, a suburb of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Azri Oatis and two friends were steadily shoveling sand into white bags in hopes they could save his slightly raised auto paint and body shop from the waist-deep water in its parking lot.

It is the first time floods have threatened the shop, he said. “Reality kind of slapped me in the face. You see it all the time, other places,” he said. The flooding could be the area’s worst in more than 30 years, with the worst damage to low-lying areas in the southern and western parts of town, Petal Mayor Hal Marx said. “We’ve tried to tell folks in those areas to get prepared, to get their belongings out,” Marx said on Saturday at the police station. It is the most widespread non-hurricane flooding the Louisiana National Guard has ever dealt with, guard spokesman Pete Schneider said.

Unusually widespread flooding wreaks havoc across Louisiana and Mississippi - Taipei Times

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More dead in Deep South flooding; water levels to rise
March 13, 2016 -- Parts of the Deep South are bracing for more rain Sunday and flooding later this week after six people died in historic flooding that has also destroyed homes and washed out roads.

At least three people died in Louisiana, one in Texas and one in Oklahoma. Two fishermen were reported missing in Mississippi. More than 24 inches of rain has fallen in some of the hardest-hit areas of Mississippi, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Mississippi officials said 95 homes have major damage and nearly 300 have minor damage in 41 counties. The flooding is the worst since 2012, when Hurricane Issac dumped more than 24 inches of rain in the area.

At least three people died in Louisiana and one in Oklahoma in historic flooding in the Deep South. Two fishermen were reported missing in Mississippi. More than 24 inches of rain has fallen in some of the hardest-hit areas of Mississippi, Louisiana and Oklahoma.​

In Louisiana, the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness said nearly 5,000 homes have been damaged by flooding. Thousands have been forced from their homes. "Our first goal is to help our local partners through the response phase of this event," GOHSEP Director James Waskom said. "We will begin to transition into the recovery phase as conditions improve. We have been working with [Federal Emergency Management Agency] for the past several days in an effort to streamline the disaster assessment process that will ultimately determine what level of federal support will be available for individuals, parishes and state agencies dealing with flood."

At least three people died in Louisiana and one in Oklahoma in historic flooding in the Deep South. Two fishermen were reported missing in Mississippi. More than 24 inches of rain has fallen in some of the hardest-hit areas of Mississippi, Louisiana and Oklahoma.​

Forecasters said the nasty weather will continue Sunday through the Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas areas, with the possibility of large hail, strong winds and tornadoes late Sunday. The National Weather Service said the flooding won't end for days. The Big SunFlower River, a main tributary of the Yazoo River in Mississippi, is expected to crest at 28.5 feet on Wednesday.

More dead in Deep South flooding; water levels to rise

 

[HenryBHough]

Floods of biblical proportion?

Wow, urban renewal on steroids!!!!

 

[Crick]

The recent flooding - from heavy rains and rising rivers - is not the sort of thing the OP is talking about. Think catastrophic.

 

[Old Rocks]

As in 500 cubic miles of water going from Montana down the Colombia to the ocean in about a week. And another one of the same proportions, from Utah, down the Snake and Colombia in the same amount of time.

 

[Crick]

Or Noah's flood when the Mediterranean overtopped it's banks at what would become Istanbul and cut the Straits of Bosporus while turning what used to be a moderate lake into the Black Sea