On this day, June 5, 1976, the Teton Dam failed.

[2naSalit]

1. I remember that.

I wasn't a resident of Idaho at the time but when I did live there I was not far downriver (Snake) from there. Been through Sugar city many, many times as well as Rexburg, used to haul spuds out of there. In Rexburg, the surviving building all have the high water mark identified and there is a museum dedicated to the memory of the flood. The mormon temple there, the old one, is one of the oldest buildings that was flooded but it was not so deep that the important parts were damaged, though.