Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Timeline

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887_Yellow_River_flood Per Wikipedia, 900,000 people died in 1887. They said this was the worst natural disaster ever recorded.
  • In 1931 the yellow river killed 145,000 and cost 28 million dollars in damage. It flooded 20 times that year but the flood does bring the best soil in China.
  • In the year 2000 they tried to make a huge barrier but could not finish it before the flood occurred again.

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