Floods in 1884, 1913 and 1937 ( see 1937 flood )-the latter affecting 80 percent of the city and prompting residents to take shelter in the garages of the former Wadsworth Watch Case Co .-caused many of the companies in the once-booming town to move elsewhere.

A flood in 1913 damaged many of the Lagoon's attractions.

That is, until March 1913 when the flood of floods occurred.

Following the disastrous 1913 flood in the Great Miami River Valley, citizens realized that the only way to prevent future flooding was to deal with protection on a watershed basis.

A major flood in 1913 required that the remaining canal locks be destroyed.

The town of Barnsdall experienced a tornado in April 1911, a major fire in March 1913 and a flood in September 1915.

A major fire burned much of the city in 1913, and a flood covered much of the city in 1964.

In 1913 the city experienced a major flood.

A flood in 1913 damaged the resort and several local businesses, and after a severe drought, World War I and the great depression, Weir's population faltered but began to prosper again in the mid-20th century.

This was destroyed in 1913 when the Cibolo Creek had its biggest flood recorded.

* Weston and Winston Doty ( 1913 – 1934 ), acting twins, drowned in a flood

Desiring a more stable existence in Portsmouth, the Slyes purchased land on which to build a home, but the flood of 1913 allowed them to move the houseboat to their property and continue living in it on dry land.

Origins of the genre can also be found in Night and Ice ( 1912 ), about the sinking of the Titanic ; Atlantis ( 1913 ), also about the Titanic ; Noah's Ark ( 1928 ), the Biblical story of the great flood ; Deluge ( 1933 ), about tidal waves devastating New York City ; King Kong ( 1933 ), with a gigantic gorilla rampaging through New York City ; and The Last Days of Pompeii ( 1935 ), dealing with the Mount Vesuvius volcanic eruption in 79 AD.

Following a catastrophic flood in March, 1913, the Miami Conservancy District was established in 1914 to build dams and levees and to dredge and straighten channels to control flooding of the river.

Catching pneumonia, he lost much of the vitality that had sustained him ; and a second flood in Hickman and another ensuing case of pneumonia in 1913 took the rest.

In 1913 the mill was badly damaged by a major flood, which took a month to repair.

The Indiana National Guard was called out twice in 1913, for the 1913 Ohio flood and a streetcar strike.

Smith's work during the 1913 flood led to his nomination for officer training in 1917 and he was sent to the Officer Candidate Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison.

* Poland: The Japanese Garden in Wrocław-founded 1913, restored 1996-1997, destroyed by flood, restored 1999

A catastrophic flood of the Great Miami River in 1913 and the subsequent flood control measures constructed by the Miami Conservancy District destroyed much of the canal infrastructure along the southern portion of the route where it paralleled the Great Miami River.

The 1913 flood has been ascribed in part to the 1912 eruption of Mount Katmai and its daughter volcano Novarupta in Alaska.

During the flood relief work in Bengal in 1913, he came in contact with Jatin Mukherjee in whom he " discovered a real leader of men ," who " added a new impulse " to Rash Behari's failing zeal.

In Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End ( 1953 ), though written after the present flood of dystopias began, we can see the bright vision of science fiction clearly defined.

His work began just six days after the flood.

Although previous Apollo expeditions, including Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 obtained samples of pre-mare lunar material, before lava began to upwell from the Moon's interior and flood the low areas and basins, none had actually visited the lunar highlands.

The great flood of the main Nile usually occurred in Egypt during August, September, and October, but it sometimes began as early as June at Aswan and often did not completely wane until January.

* 1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.

In 2005 the city began construction of a new neighbourhood, De Groote Wielen ( named after the large kolks in the area created by flood water ).

Genesis 11: 10 records that Shem was still 100 years old at the birth of Arpachshad, ( but nearly 101-see Chronology note ,) two years after the flood, making him barely 99 at the time the flood began ; and that he lived for another 500 years after this, making his age at death 600 years.

The Bay of Fundy lies in a rift valley called the Fundy Basin ; as the rift began to separate from mainland North America, volcanic activity occurred, forming volcanoes and flood basalts.

The Agency began construction of a flood alleviation scheme, costing about £ 1. 3 million, in the summer of 2010.

Only after this flood, the creation of a spit from sediments began to form the current characteristical shape of Sylt.

They began work on the Mississippi River and Tributaries Flood Control Project in 1928, and the Flood Control Act of 1936 gave the Corps the mission to provide flood protection to the entire country.

Then the sea levels began to rise, and the pits began to flood.

In the early 1950s the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers began work on two flood control reservoirs in and around Yalobusha County, much to the distress of county farmers who lost thousands of acres of fertile bottom land.

The mounting chaos and disunity angered the sea, which began to rise until it had covered the plains and threatened to flood the entire country.

Ceremonially, when the Nile started its annual flood, the Festival of Anuket began.

The flood of 1912 began when a levee located near Hickman broke.

In 1860, a flood of French-Canadian immigration into Maine began, spawned by industrial work opportunities in Maine cities with water power from waterfalls.

During the Summer of 2011 the Mississippi began to flood, Pinhook was destroyed on May 2, 2011.

Competitively priced German cutlery began to flood the American market, and together with the Panic of 1893 and the economic slowdown that followed for several years, the knife companies and their owners went heavily into debt and it looked for a while as if they might not survive.

Unlike earlier floods in the Wyoming Valley, most of which were caused by spring freshets, the 1972 flood was caused by bizarre and unusual weather patterns, including heavy rainfall that began in mid-April.

Gold was discovered at Monte Cristo in the summer of 1889 and prospectors began to flood into the Cascade Mountains.