This week is Minnesota Severe Weather Awareness Week, and the National Weather Service-Twin Cities has designated a daily topic each day of the week. Wednesday's topic is floods and flash floods.

• Nationally, floods claim nearly 200 lives each year, force 300,000 persons from their homes. In Minnesota, floods kill more people than any other weather event with most flash-flood deaths occurring at night. Half of the victims die in automobiles or other vehicles.
• Seven people were killed in a deadly flash flood Aug. 18-19, 2007, in southeastern Minnesota. A state record for rainfall was set at Hokah — 15.1 inches in 24 hours.

Source: Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management’s Severe Weather Awareness Week Web site

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