Die Ohio River Flut von 1937 fand Ende Januar und Februar 1937. Mit Schaden erstreckt sich von Pittsburgh nach Kairo, Illinois wurden 1 Million Menschen, mit 385 Tote und Sachschäden bis $ 500 Millionen ($ 8 Milliarden in 2012 Dollar obdachlos
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The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February 1937. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, one million people were left homeless, with 385 dead and property losses reaching $500 million ($8 Billion in 2012 dollars). Federal and state resources were strained to aid recovery, as the disaster occurred during the Great Depression and a few years after the Dust Bowl. The federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent thousands of area WPA workers to the affected cities to aid in rescue and recovery. It also sent supplies for food and temporary housing, and millions of dollars in aid after the floodwaters receded. Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois were all seriously effected. The scale of the 1937 flood was so unprecedented that civic and industrial groups lobbied national authorities to create a comprehensive plan for flood control. The plan involved creating more than seventy storage reservoirs to reduce Ohio River flood heights. Not fully completed by the Army Corps of Engineers until the early 1940s, the new facilities have drastically reduced flood damages since. Photograph originally captioned: Sandbags being piled up along the levees at Cairo, Illinois against the destructive floodwaters.
