During this period the CCC was called in to provide disaster relief following 1937 floods in New York, Vermont and the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, and response and clean-up after the 1938 hurricane in New England.

* November 16 – During the night the River Tyne, England, floods, destroying many bridges and killing several people ; the replacement main bridge at Newcastle upon Tyne will not be completed until 1781.

* During the Ming Dynasty of China, a tsunami floods over the seawall in Haiyan County of Zhejiang province, inundating the agricultural crop fields with saltwater and ruining many acres of crops.

During flash floods, rainfall from the steep mountains to the west pours through narrow canyons, picking up everything from fine clay to large rocks.

During the city's history several floods have occurred, the last one being in the late 1970s.

During the late 19th century a railroad line was connected through the Grape Creek Canyon but was permanently closed after a few disastrous floods.

During floods the creek becomes a braided channel.

During the spring floods of 1910, Mr. Bagne made an attempt to save the dam, but his efforts failed and the dam was lost.

During the summer of 1993, the railroad reopened to train traffic as the floods of the midwest affected lines around the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

During heavy rains, the bayou often floods.

During the 1950s and earlier annual floods during the snow melt were often experienced, but better farming techniques now make flooding rare.

During the 1974 floods, the bridge was badly damaged when a barge rammed into its upstream side.

During the wet season, Titicaca overflows and discharges into Poopó, which, in turn, floods Salar De Coipasa and Salar de Uyuni.

* During floods, water discharge can increase up to 11-fold, to more than 6, 800 m³ / s.

During its long history Miskolc survived fires, floods, plagues and foreign invasions, but maintained its position as the centre of northeastern Hungary.

During rainy season these rivers are full and heavy floods affect the low-lying areas on the banks, but in the summer season they generally go dry and narrow.

During the floods, the river widens to above 10 km near Uralsk and to several tens kilometers near the mouth.

During his tenure at the helm of CBC's flagship newscast beginning May 1, 1988 ( as co-anchor of CBC Prime Time News from November 1992 to fall 1995, and as sole anchor of The National otherwise ), he has covered Canadian news stories including federal elections, party leadership conventions, the Meech Lake Accord negotiations, the Charlottetown Accord and its referendum, the 1995 Quebec referendum, floods in Manitoba in 1997, ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in 1998, the six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, the 2003 blackout across much of Eastern North America and the death and state funeral of Jack Layton.

During record level floods, all road access to the towns of Carnation and Duvall becomes closed off.

During periods of flash floods, particularly, the stream undercuts the walls of rock that separate the meanders ( or " goosenecks ") of the stream, until the rock wall within the meander is undercut and the meander is cut off ; the new stream bed then flows underneath the bridge.

During local floods, the number of Wattled Cranes can increase from almost none to as much as 3, 000 individuals.

During the 18th century Komárom experienced many natural disasters including floods, fires, earthquakes, and cholera and plague epidemics.

During the rainy season, this area floods, so that much of it becomes swampland with various channels of deep water running through it.

During the 19th century, drought and floods alternately struck the rice fields and farms of Korea and caused great famines.

During a brief marriage to Wallace J. Benedict which ended in divorce, Eastman lived in Milwaukee and managed the unsuccessful 1912 Wisconsin suffrage battle.

During 1900 it was adopted by Germany, by Russia in 1904, the British West Indies in 1905, Spain in 1906, Belgium in 1909, Argentina in 1912, and Romania in 1913.

During Hoover's 1907 visit to Australia, Jim Lyster relocated from Gwalia to Broken Hill and began experiments which resulted in the " Lyster Process ", which enabled the Zinc Corporation to operate the world's first selective or differential flotation plant, from September 1912.

During the Meiji period ( 1868 – 1912 ), leaders inaugurated a new Western-based education system for all young people, sent thousands of students to the United States and Europe, and hired more than 3, 000 Westerners to teach modern science, mathematics, technology, and foreign languages in Japan ( Oyatoi gaikokujin ).

During August and September 1912, a contingent of 2300 U. S. Marines landed at the port of Corinto and occupied León and the railway line to Granada.

During this second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition.

During séances held from 1912, a spirit calling itself " Leo Africanus " apparently claimed it was Yeats ' Daemon or anti-self, inspiring some of the speculations in Per Amica Silentia Lunae.

During Song's travels through China in 1912, he had openly and vehemently expressed the desire to limit the powers of the President in terms that often appeared openly critical of Yuan's ambitions.

During his reign, he saw his father, his brother and his nephew, Frederick IX, ascend the throne of Denmark, respectively in 1906, 1912 and 1947.

During most of the Republic of China's period of rule over mainland China ( 1912 – 1949 ), the warlord Yen Hsi-shan held Shanxi, regardless of the frequent political upheavals shaking the rest of China.

During Song's travels through China in 1912, he had openly and vehemently expressed the desire to limit the powers of the president in terms that often appeared openly critical of Yuan's ambitions.

During the winter of 1912, Loy's mother nearly died from pneumonia, and her father sent his wife and daughter to La Jolla, California.

During 1912, he designed the reinforced bridges in the Timok valley on the railway line Niš-Knjazevac.

During the 20th century the Pomaks in Bulgaria were the subject of three state-supported assimilation campaigns-in 1912, the 1940s and the 1960s and 1970s which included the change of their Turkish-Arabic names to ethnic Bulgarian ones and in the first campaign conversions from Islam to Eastern Orthodoxy.

During the Showa period, naginata training became a part of the public school system in 1912 ; and it " remains a staple of girls ’ physical education "

During the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, Thorpe won the gold medal in the Decathlon ( among others ).

During the changes brought by Japan opening up to the outside world at the beginning of the Meiji era ( 1868 – 1912 ), the samurai lost their position.

During this period Ryti also undertook further studies, becoming a Master of Laws in 1912.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties ( 1368 – 1912 ), vernacular dialects began to be used in novels, but were not generally used in formal writing, which continued to use classical Chinese.

During the summer of 1912, Jackson returned to Jamestown.

During the first outbreak in 1912, every citrus tree north of latitude 19 ° south was destroyed, taking 11 years to eradicate the disease.

During the half century ( 1874 – 1912 ) of the resort's greatest prominence, most wealthy vacationers came from New York City, joined by prominent families from Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and other cities of the United States and Canada.

During the 1912 restoration, workers discovered foundation work that verified De Zavala's instincts that the structure had indeed been an original part of the Alamo.

During the Meiji period ( 1868 – 1912 ) Japan abandoned its feudal system and opened up to Western modernism.