Case study – Boscastle flash flood * Afternoon – Monday 16th August * 200mm rain fell in 24 hours – most in 5 hours * Average for whole of Boscastle in August – 75mm * Water poured down steep-sided valley slopes and swelled normal * Water poured down steep-sided valley slopes and swelled normally small River Valency flowing towards harbour = burst its banks. * Effects – * Nobody was killed * 58 buildings flooded‚ some had to be demolished * 25 business properties
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Uttarakhand Floods: A Disaster of Our Own Making? Even after two weeks of rescue operations uncertainty prevails over the number of casualties and people still stuck in what is described as the worst natural disaster that has ever struck the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. The Chief Minister of the mountainous state‚ Vijay Bahuguna‚ says that the exact number of deaths in the calamity will never be known as estimates of the actual casualties vary from hundreds to several thousands
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burger and the best French fries and suddenly for 30 minutes past ‚ and this man walked in the restaurant and said “ Turn on the TV to the news “ . The manager turned on the TV to the news ‚ and they were saying “ People ‚ there is a chance ‚ that a flood is going to happen ‚ in thirty minutes ‚ be prepared “ . People in Louisiana were shocked ‚ also in the restaurant ‚ people were flipping out and so was I . We headed out of the restaurant and my father headed to the wood store to go get some wood
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The novel not only talks about the human destructing the nature but also touches major factors that are used by humanity to destruct this world and those could turn against humanity itself at the end. Atwood talks about technologies‚ genetic engineering‚ scientific inventions‚ private corporations and law and order. The God’s Gardeners in the novels can be compared to the ecological splinter groups that still believe in the importance of nature and take serious actions to protect the nature. Their
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By: Aditya Rahman Sulaiman 10/HK/295884/19279 International Undergraduate Programme Lapindo hot mud flood case or we usually called it “banjir lumpur panas Lapindo” is an event of the unstoppable mud gush in Kecamatan Porong‚ Kabupaten Sidoarjo‚ Jawa Timur and this accident have been happened since 29 may 2006. There are 2 views of the cause of this Lapindo hut mud flood case. First‚ some scholars said that the primary cause of this event was because drilling mistakes and technical
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A Comparison of the Flood of the Bible and Gilgamesh I as well as many others grew up listening to the story of Noah and the flood. I remember the length of the flood‚ the dove‚ and the rainbow very vividly. However‚ most people do not realize that the story is told throughout many different cultures and with accounts older than Genesis’s version in the Bible. Although each of the accounts tells of the flood‚ there are many variations to the story. One of the stories can be found in the Epic
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NSPE Board of Ethical Review 2/15/12 – APPROVED Case No. 11-9 Pg. 1 Conflict of Interest—Public Health and Safety— Design and Construction of House in Flood Area Case No. 11-9 Facts: First Owner wants to build a house and hires Architect A and Engineer B. Following disagreements over the location of the house due to potential flooding and drainage issues‚ First Owner terminates Architect A and Engineer B after paying their fee. First Owner then hires Architect C and Engineer D to design
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To what extent are floods necessary for the formation of river landforms? River landforms are formed by either depositional methods or erosional methods‚ and the landforms that floods are necessary for are formed by depositional methods‚ but there are landforms that are formed by erosional methods where floods are not needed to create these landforms. The main landforms that are formed by floods are levees‚ floodplains and oxbow lakes. The most obvious example of a landform where
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Air pollution Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals‚ particulate matter‚ or biological materials that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms‚ or cause damage to the natural environment or built environment‚ into the atmosphere. The atmosphere is a complex dynamic natural gaseous system that is essential to support life on planet Earth. Stratospheric ozone depletion due to air pollution has long been recognized as a threat to human health as well as to the Earth’s
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General information on the Sumarian Epic Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 B.C.E.) The epic developed over a period of nearly a thousand years. It was discovered in the city of Ninevah amidst the ruins of the great royal library of Assurbanipal‚ the last great king of the Assyrian empire. The text is still not completely understood today. We can identify three stages in the epic’s development. The first begins in roughly 2700 B.C.E. when the historical Gilgamesh ruled in Uruk‚ a city in ancient Mesopotamia
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