Talk:1979 Easter flood

A fact from 1979 Easter flood appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 April 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 1979 Easter flood was among the most costly and devastating ever to occur in Mississippi, with over $1.4 billion in damages?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/April.

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Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/events/79flood/excerpts.htm
- In 1979 Easter flood on 2011-05-25 04:50:32, 404 Not Found
- In 1979 Easter flood on 2011-06-07 00:47:09, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 00:47, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link 2

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/events/79flood/chronology.html
- In 1979 Easter flood on 2011-05-25 04:50:32, 404 Not Found
- In 1979 Easter flood on 2011-06-07 00:47:19, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 00:47, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New Information

Added some new information about the flooding and cited it, added a link to the main article on Floods, and added 2 external links

--TA2016 (talk) 17:40, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]