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Flood

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When the River Rises

In a few short hours, a normal evening along Texas’s Blanco River became the site of a deadly flash flood.

Jamie Thompson Texas Monthly May 2016 40min Permalink

Best Article Science Travel

57 Feet and Rising

During the Great Floods of 2011, the Mississippi unleashed deadly currents and a flow rate that could fill the Superdome in less than a minute. Defying government orders, the author and two friends canoed 300 miles from Memphis to Vicksburg. This is their story.

W. Hodding Carter Outside Aug 2011 25min Permalink

The Billionaire and the Flood

How a tragedy transformed a small town in West Virginia.

Elaina Plott Washingtonian May 2017 20min Permalink

The Day We Set the Colorado River Free

A flood-fueled adventure on a forgotten stretch of the Colorado.

Rowan Jacobsen Outside Jun 2014 25min Permalink