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Glendale leaders review "1,000‑year" August flood, outline cleanup and FEMA coordination
Summary
City leaders told the Common Council that the Aug. 9–10 storm produced roughly 11.7–14.6 inches of rain locally, damaged dozens of homes, generated 628 tons of debris from city streets and prompted a request to FEMA; staff said MMSD, Milwaukee County and local responders were central to the multiweek cleanup.
Mayor and city staff told the Glendale Common Council that the Aug. 9–10 storm was effectively a 1,000‑year (0.1% annual chance) event for parts of the North Shore and that the city’s emergency response and cleanup stretched over roughly three weeks.
City Administrator Carl Warwick said the closest rain gauge in Glendale recorded about 11.71 inches and that gauges two miles west measured as much as 14.55 inches. "We were Glendale was in that somewhere between 11.7 and 14.5," Warwick said, and he described the North Shore ZIP 53209 as among the hardest hit.
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