The most destructive flood in US history occurred in 1927 along the Mississippi River. It flooded 27,000 square miles and left 600,000 people homeless.
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another flood in 1927 was the most destructive in Vermont history. It destroyed 1,285 bridges and killed the Lt. Governor.
The picture above was taken from a spot along my bicycle commute to work when I was in Vermont earlier this summer. My picture is below.
These floods were thousands of times larger than the biblical flood in Ellicott City, MD last week – which the National Weather Service of course blamed on global warming.