Floods - L'Anse

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• A torrential rain that fell in sheets" and continued for at least two hours inundated much of this Keweenaw Bay community Monday evening and left in its ebb the fear that the village's water supply may have been polluted.Residents said the rainfall began at about 6:30 p.m. and before it ended the downtown streets were under three to five feet of water. Parts of streets were washed away, business places flooded and several automobiles damaged as they were immersed and swirled about in the rushing water.Portions of the hamlet were flooded last month when a rare occurrence called a seiche - a type of inland tidal wave - rolled into Keweenaw Bay.[Taken from a July 17, 1968 edition of the Daily Mining Gazette.]"
2/27/2009 8:41:24 AM by Christine Holland, Archives