100 years after the Flood of 1916, the City of Asheville is ready for the next one - The City of Asheville
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By any measure Asheville’s catastrophic Flood of 1916 stands as “The Flood by Which All Other Floods Are Measured.” When two tropical storms converged on the mountains in tandem that summer — one from the Gulf in June followed by another from the Atlantic in July — the water that thundered in its wake wasn’t [...]
  • TechnoCatEnglish
    2•2 months ago

    Wow. The article makes it sound like Asheville has done almost nothing to prevent flooding. They instead focus on emergency operations. They get a D in planning from me.