In March 2008, Emsworth was hit by a large storm which resulted in numerous trees being uprooted and, combined with a high tide, led to large parts of the town being flooded.

Numerous other roads were flooded, making access to some parts of the town impossible.

The lower part of the town was flooded.

For example, after being flooded more than 30 times since their town was founded in 1845, residents of Pattonsburg, Missouri, decided to relocate after two floods in 1993.

Besieged from May until October 1574 by the Spanish, Leiden was relieved by the cutting of the dikes, thus enabling ships to carry provisions to the inhabitants of the flooded town.

Historical significance of the Angara and the Ilim River | Ilim as water routes is attested by a chain of villages along them ( many of which, as well as the town of Ilimsk, were flooded by modern dams ) on this map from 1773.

Ice-choked water during the spring breakup frequently flooded the town ( 20 times from 1723 to 1813 ), as did high surf on a number of occasions.

After 34 days of Iowa mud pits, sand drifts in Nevada and Utah, overheated radiators, flooded roads, cracked axles, and enthusiastic greetings in every town that thought it had a chance of being on the new highway, the tour arrived for a parade down San Francisco's Market Street before thousands of cheering residents.

Now that tin is no longer mined the mines are mostly flooded, Sungai Lembing is a dying town with few prospects except tourism based on its history of mining and trekking up Bukit Panorama.

In 1362 a disastrous storm tide, the " Grote Mandrenke " flooded the town and carved out the inland harbour.

Strabane suffered huge economic damage in 1987 when much of the centre of the town was flooded.

Torrential rain caused drains to block as well as an Anglian Water pumping station to break down and this resulted in flash flooding around the town in which 90 properties were flooded up to 5 ft.

) The Pea River frequently flooded, causing great damage to the town.

Elba was completely flooded for four days, and the town was nearly destroyed.

The levee protects the town from being flooded by the two rivers.

Memorial Day as well as Labor Day weekends the town is flooded by several times the population in tourists, many come on the motorcycles and other off-road vehicles that line the streets.

This town was heavily flooded in 1995 and 1998.

Large pine trees were uprooted and most of the town flooded by water levels above normal.

On July 10, 2005, the storm surge associated with Hurricane Dennis severely flooded the town, causing major damage to local businesses and homes.

The town is above sea level and had not flooded during Hurricane Betsy nor Hurricane Camille.

Much of the town flooded with the Lake Pontchartrain storm surge of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

In 2005, the storm surge forced inland by Hurricane Rita flooded most of the town.

In 1574, these floodings affected Maasland, and once again the town was flooded.

As a result of the 2007 Midwest flooding, the town was flooded when the dikes holding back the Whitewater River failed on August 18, 2007.

The company announced it would close the Herald American -- making Boston a one-newspaper town — on December 3, 1982.

The Swiss town of Vevey, where he was a resident during his final years, named a park in his honour in 1980 and erected a replica of the Doubleday statue there in 1982.

* 1982 – February 1982 Hama massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.

In a similar vein is First Blood ( 1982 ) which features John Rambo ( Sylvester Stallone in an iconic role ), as a Vietnam vet who comes into conflict with a small town police department.

* Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb of 75, 000 residents, became the largest town to ban handgun ownership in September 1982 but experienced no decline in violent crime.

In May 1982 the townspeople of Garrett Park voted 245 to 46 to ban the production, transportation, storage, processing, disposal, or use of nuclear weapons within the town.

* In the 1982 Doctor Who story " Castrovalva ", the titular town is subject to apparently impossible architecture.

According to " The Boone Family " book by Hazel Atterbury Spraker ( 1982 ), " was buried near the body of his wife, in a cemetery established in 1803 by David Bryan, upon the bank of a small stream called Teuque Creek about one and one-half miles southeast of the present site of the town of Marthasville in Warren County, Missouri, it being at that time the only Protestant cemetery North of the Missouri River.

In 1982 the town saw significant demonstrations against the martial law declared by the Communist regime, which were put down by its death squads, resulting in the murder of three people .< ref >

* Andy Webster ( b. 1982 ), footballer & Scotland international ( 22 caps to date ) – grew up and was educated in Arbroath, prior to his departing for clubs further afield, and his parents still reside in the town.

Salvador Sánchez Narváez ( January 26, 1959-August 12, 1982 ) was a Mexican boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de México.

* Pete Townshend's 1982 solo album, All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, contained the track " Stardom in Acton " in reference to his home town, while the accompanying video was filmed on and around Acton High Street.

* The design of the Uffington Horse was used as the album cover of the 1982 album English Settlement by English rock group XTC, who come from the nearby town of Swindon.

The law is modeled on a 1982 law passed in the town of Kennesaw, Georgia.

Several years later, in 1982 around the time of the town ’ s centennial anniversary, people began to talk to one another about constructing a shared Community Building to benefit the current and future people of Royal.

Daleville, Indiana is the newest town in Indiana, Daleville was not officially incorporated as a town until 1982

* Trivial Pursuit, the game introduced in 1982, had a question concerning this small town and its annual festival, in particular the bed races.

* Charles V. Park ( 1885 – 1982 ), noted librarian for whom the Charles V. Park Library at Central Michigan University is named, was born in town.

Prior to the village's establishment on July 7, 1982, the area was an unincorporated section of the town of Rye.

Opened as a museum in 1982, the Blount-Bridgers House serves as the town ’ s art and civic center.

In 1982, Honda opened manufacturing plants on the far west side of the town.

In 1982, the town became the third in the county to incorporate.