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Whereas during an average year floods claim about 100 lives and 1 billion dollars in damage, during 1972 the losses were four to five times that great. Although Hurricane Agnes caused severe flooding from North Carolina to New York, a variety of phenomena, including rainfall, snowmelt, ice jams, structural failures, and lake stages, caused flooding in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and other places. The floods described in this paper, all of which exceeded the magnitude of the 50-year recurrence interval, were selected to demonstrate the variety of causes.

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Highway Research Record

52nd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board

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Costs; Flood damage; Floods

Causes

Finance; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology

TRIS, TRB

Sep 20 1977 12:00AM

• DESIGN CRITERIA AND RESEARCH NEEDS
• FLOOD DAMAGE IN SOUTH DAKOTA
• FLOODS IN MINNESOTA
• HURRICANE AGNES-DAMAGE IN PENNSYLVANIA
• OBSERVATIONS ON THE CAUSES OF BRIDGE DAMAGE IN PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK DUE TO HURRICANE AGNES
• PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF EXTREME FLOODS
• RECORDING FLOODS AND FLOOD DAMAGE
• ROLE OF THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION IN RESTORING HIGHWAYS DAMAGED BY DISASTERS
• THE WORTH OF DATA IN HYDROLOGIC DESIGN
• WEATHER SITUATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH FLOODS DURING 1972