SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Tuesday marked 54 years since devastating flooding in Rapid City. On June 9th, 1972, a thunderstorm stalled over the Black Hills; the heavy rain overwhelmed Rapid Creek and ...

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Rapid City, S.D. (KELO) — 53 years ago, on June 9th and 10th, the Rapid City tragedy that was the 1972 Flood destroyed portions of the city along Rapid Creek. Thousands of people were injured, and ...

Passing on memories of the devastation of the 1972 flood is necessary to preserve the flood plain, Rapid City officials said Thursday. City Community Development Director Vicki Fisher said people need ...

Rapid City Journal Photo Editor Matt Gade has produced a documentary, "The 1972 Black Hills Flood: 50 Years Later." The movie is available to view for free with no subscription required beginning ...

The recent Guadalupe floods in Texas brought back horrible memories of the June 1972 Rapid City, South Dakota, flood, which took the lives of 238 people. I am incensed that news organizations did not ...

Rapid City Journal Photo Editor Matt Gade has produced a documentary, "The 1972 Black Hills Flood: 50 Years Later." The movie is available to view for free with no subscription required beginning ...

Rapid City was a different city 40 years ago. The 1972 flood dramatically changed the city’s appearance and the fates of families who lost loved ones to nature’s fury.

“Surviving the ‘72 Flood” tells of many tragic losses that occurred on June 9, 1972, but its stories and photos also document Rapid City residents’ survival, luck, cleanup, heroism and ...