The 1952 Flood: The Easter Flood

It is easy as we live our day-to-day lives to think that our individual worlds are quite small.  When one considers something like a flood, it is even more probable that a people will see their fight to survive an act of nature as a particularly lonely one.  The 1952 flood of the Missouri River that decimated much of Dakota County was not such an event.  The Missouri River Flood of 1952 was one which engulfed the Mississippi, Missouri, and Upper Red River Basins.  Areas of the American Southwest and California experienced significant flooding, as did large parts of the United Kingdom.

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