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Flood Pressure Rockets Blocks From Parkville Wall

KCUR
Published April 27, 2009 at 5:23 PM CDT
Thousand pound blocks ejected from Parkville hillside by water pressure. (click to enlarge)
kcur photo by Dan Verbeck.
Thousand pound blocks ejected from Parkville hillside by water pressure. (click to enlarge)

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Parkville, Mo. – Chief among April 27th flash flood damage in Platte County was destruction of more than a hundred feet of retaining wall, ripping loose from a sixty foot tall hillside. KCUR'S Dan Verbeck reports.
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