Fairbanks, Alaska flood, August 1967

 

Cushman Street turned into a waterway during the 1967 flood, with people traveling by canoe and motorboat in waters 3 or 4 feet deep. (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Collection)

A few days after my third birthday. (My parents had met and married in Fairbanks in 1963. We lived there until early 1969.)

Wikipedia:

Flood

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Fairbanks Area

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The flood was the worst disaster in Fairbanks' history. Roughly 95% of Fairbanks was flooded, and the flood water's depth reached a maximum of 5 feet.^[2] Nearly every house received water damage, and there was at least an inch of brown mud on every submerged surface. The cost of damage in Fairbanks alone was estimated to be $85 million.^[2][4]

The Richardson Highway was washed out near Salcha for about half a mile.^[2]