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Category Archives: Environment

Favorite The Great Midwest Flood of 1913

Posted on Tuesday, 24 March 2020 by Mark ThomasJune 5, 2021

Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913, is generally considered to mark the beginning of a five-day period during which the Ohio River and its major tributaries overflowed their banks, causing cataclysmic flooding across its entire watershed. When the local waters began … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment | Tagged Environmental disasters

Favorite Griffin tornado

Posted on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 by Mark ThomasJuly 28, 2020

Here, we call it the Griffin Tornado The history books refer to it as the Tri-State Tornado of 1925. Meteorologists have named it the Murphysboro (Mo.) Tornado, after it’s general point of origin. However, in Posey County, Indiana, the devastation … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment | Tagged Griffin Indiana, Posey County Historical Society, Tornado, Tri-State Tornado, weather

Favorite Tri-State Tornado

Posted on Sunday, 17 March 2013 by Mark ThomasJuly 28, 2020

Will this tornado’s dark reign stand? In the grim business of ranking the dead, the Tri-State Tornado of 1925 has no peer. Until that event, the greatest fatality count directly attributable to a single tornado, 317 souls, occurred in 1840. … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment | Tagged emergency management, natural disasters, Tri-State Tornado, weather
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