MOVING HISTORY FORWARD: Christmas flood of 1933
Workers fill sandbags along the sidewalk at City Park to hold back the rising lake water.
Courtesy of Museum of North Idaho
Kellogg was cut off from all highways and bridges during the raging flood of the Coeur d’Alene River Dec. 23, 1933. Only a small airfield provided any access for supplies and news.
Courtesy of Museum of North Idaho
A few days before Christmas 1933, a warm southerly wind, known as a chinook, began blowing through the Coeur d’Alene Mountains melting the accumulated snow. The snowmelt caused creeks and rivers to overflow leaving mud, water and debris on the roadways and knocking out bridges, railroads and sections of highways...
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