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• Anoka County Multi, Jurisdictional All Hazards Mitigation Plan and storm water sewer systems. Out of banks flooding is likely to occur once or twice per decade. Future impact is considered moderate. In Blaine flooding occurs during heavy rains especially in the spring when melting snow contributes water to the area. Major flooding occurred in July of 2002. Flooding occurred citywide and inundated many basements. Blaine is about 60% developed and is comprised of a considerable amount of "low land" which is drained by watershed ditches. As the city becomes more developed and more houses and streets are constructed, heavy rains will likely cause similar flooding. Future occurrence will result in street flooding that interrupts traffic flow and consumes resources, detouring traffic and marking hazards. Damage may also be sustained by citizens of older home that lack waterproofed basements. Oak Grove which is located adjacent to the Rum River and experiences minimal flooding with extensive rains and melting snow runoff but occurrences are infrequent and the impact minimal. Lino Lakes, Spring Lake Park and St. Francis experience storm -water flooding during periods of heavy rain. The flooding is infrequent and the impact minimal. Anoka County and participating jurisdictions have experienced major flood events 37 times since 1965 resulting in one fatality and five injuries. A total of $203,714,028 in structure damage has been logged along with $481,287 in content damage. A detailed list of flood events is provided in Appendix A. • 4.3.1.5 Epidemics /Pandemics/Vectors Pandemics (World Wide epidemics) have occurred three times in the world's human population. • • The 1918 -1919 Spanish Flu caused the highest number of deaths. India had 16 million deaths. The U.S. had 675,000 deaths. In England 230,000 died. In Germany 225,000 and in France 166,000 perished. World wide, the estimated fatalities were 20 million to 50 million. During the Spanish Flu pandemic, Spain closed its government. New York City closed its port and trains did not run. The British Navy did not sail for three weeks. • The 1957 -58 Asian Flu was identified in February 1957 in China. By June, it had crossed the Pacific and entered the U.S. Globally, it caused a million deaths. In the U.S., 70,000 persons died. It was a Type A virus. • The 1968 -69 Honq Kong Flu caused four million deaths worldwide and 34,000 deaths in the U.S. It was a Type A virus. Epidemics in Minnesota were major killers in the 1700s and 1800s. The worst culprits were smallpox, polio, influenza, measles, and cholera, and yellow fever. In 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic struck Minnesota, 10,000 Minnesotans died, over twenty percent in the Twin Cities. Small towns were infected as severely as larger cities. In the twin cities in 1935, a failure of the chlorination units at the public water supply plant resulted in a serious typhoid epidemic with 213 cases and 7 deaths. In 1979 an outbreak of Red Measles occurred, over 200 cases were reported.