Underground Chattanooga: Difference between revisions

Chattanooga experienced bouts of systematic flooding roughly every decade.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Watch now: Greater Chattanooga {{!}} Underground Revealed {{!}} WTCI Video|url = http://video.wtcitv.org/video/2365460597/|website = PBS Video|access-date = 2016-02-22|language = en-US}}</ref> After years of suffering through flooding, in March 1867, Chattanooga experienced a record flood following four days of heavy rainfall. The river had risen {{Convert|53|ft}}, which was 15.5 feet higher than a flood twenty years earlier.<ref name=nooa>{{cite web|title=The East Tennessee Flood of 1867|url=http://www.srh.noaa.gov/rtimages/mrx/presentations/ChattFloodof1867.pdf|publisher=[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]]|accessdate=23 September 2015|quote=At Chattanooga the rise began on March 4, overflowed the banks on March 8, and attained height on March 11, being 53 feet above low water and 15.5 feet above the high water of 1847, the highest on record. The river fell with equal rapidity to the usual level. Rains were incessant for four days before the highest water.}}</ref> The bridge across the river was destroyed as were many buildings. There was a considerable loss of life and looting took place. Upwards of 4,000 homeless in Chattanooga were ferried out of the flooding city to areas of higher ground.<ref>{{Cite web