Floods in the US are not unknown, and today Atlas Obscura links to the Johnstown flood memorial
and tells the story of the "inclined plane" railroad that saved people in the 1936 and 1967 floods.
the Flood Memorial museum is located several miles upstream from Johnstown, and both times the floods killed folks in upstream towns. Indeed, my house when I lived nearby survived the flood before I bought moved there, but the houses nearer to the river did not and were parks...and the garage across the street had a mark "flood level" seven feet off the ground.
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