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List of deadliest floods

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Floods have killed millions of people and left even more homeless. Here is a list of floods, which killed the most humans.

Rated 1 point - posted 14 years ago by orangeporridge in category World.

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1.

Great Iran Flood

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2.

St. Marcellus flood

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3.

1911 Yangtze river flood

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4.

St. Lucia's flood,

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5.

1949 Eastern Guatemala flood

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6.

Failure of 1935 Banqiao Dam

The dam was built to survive 1-in-1,000-year flood, but during the super typhoon Nina, it couldn't resists because of the heavy rainfall and cold front, which were brought by typhoon Nina. This flood killed around 231,000 people.

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North Sea flood

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8.

1938 Yellow River flood

Chiang Kai-shek and his advisors decided to open up a **** near Yellow river in order to slow down Japanese army. This flood caused death of 500,000 and left few million refugees homeless.

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9.

St. Felix's Flood

The flood began on Saturday 5 November 1530, which was the name day of St. Felix. That day is also known as the Evil Saturday. More than 100,000 people died during the flood.

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10.

1935 Yangtze river flood

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11.

1931 China floods

It is considered to be deadliest natural disaster in 20th century. It took life from more than 4 million people.

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12.

felixtowe flood

it wiped out all of felixstowe apart from one house which still stands today

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13.

1887 Yellow River (Huang He) flood

The flood began in September 1887 and killed more than 900,000 people.

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