over 92 deaths occur each year from floods. Again we cannot get away from the need of rain‚ but is there really a need for flooding?
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Jessica Micheaux Professor Barbara Cade World Lit Engl. 2302 30 January 2012 “The Comparisons and Contrast between Gilgamesh Flood & Noah’s Floods” I was asked to compare and contrast using the story of Gilgamesh’s flood and Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6:9). A good number of people know the famous story Noah’s flood‚ but do they know how it resembles to the Gilgamesh flood story? The main stories are so alike; the main theme is the biggest comparisons between the two. They also contrast greatly in the
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Expierence has shown that every time we have a heavy rain fall ….a large sections of our base get flooded by rain water. Some time …just like today most offices in the Well system‚ OWS and Petrotesting also get flooded. This morning while it was raining we had to cut off electric power supply to the OWS and Petrotesting sections of our base as the level of the water in the offices was high enough to cover some electrical power suckets on the walls. Also back in my own office I observed some
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Mariah Wolford History 202 “The Johnstown Flood” Johnstown Flood Having taken classes about Pennsylvania history in high school and being familiar with this horrible flood‚ I was very happy with this book. The author‚ David McCullough‚ does a masterful job setting the scene‚ the politics surrounding the dam and the subsequent failure of that dam. Johnstown was a typical American town for that day and time. People worked hard and earned little. The environment was polluted to some extent‚
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communities hold a flood insurance plan. In the year 2005 the National Flood Insurance Plan (NFIP) had paid out close to 16 billion. The premiums paid by the 5 million have only surmounted to 2 billion‚ therefore the NFIP has the ability to reach out to the US Treasury. With the US Treasury enabling the NFIP to meet its financial obligations‚ the financial obligations are becoming the obligation of the taxpayers (GAO‚ 2005) (Wells‚ 2005). The goals of the NFIP are “to provide property flood insurance
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to elaborate on causes and consequences of floods. There are always floods somewhere in the world. They threat big communities with millions of people‚ their lives and properties. Big floods always draw international attention. In order to support my discussion about floods with concrete examples‚ I will talk about causes and consequences of flood using Mississippi River basin. The flood plain A river’s flood plain is central to any discussion of floods. A broad‚ nearly flat landform consisting
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had lived my whole life in Hamilton I heard many things about the 1913 flood in Hamilton‚ Ohio. Throughout all of Hamilton there are many hints that show the flood was here at one time. For example‚ there are many plaques and high water marks. Out of the surrounding places in Ohio Hamilton had got hit the worst with water up to 18 feet high. The flood of 1913 changed Ohio in many ways where you can still see it today. The flood was very important because it impacted Hamilton‚ Ohio and other surrounding
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CAUSE OF FLOOD IN JAKARTA Flood is a familiar event for the cities in the North Coast of Java‚ including Jakarta. Jakarta‚ which was built by Jan Pieters Z. Coen in the early 17th century with the concept of city water (waterfront city) is a city that is very familiar with the problems of flooding since the beginning of its establishment. But other than that there are other factors that cause flooding in Jakarta. First‚ cause of natural factors. Flood can happen because always happen the
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earthquake can cause huge loss in the amount of human life and property damage. Affects of earthquake The earthquake can make the buildings and bridges to fall‚ disrupt electricity‚ gas‚ and phone service. It can even further cause landslides‚ flash floods‚ avalanches‚ fires and destructive ocean waves‚ also known as tsunamis. The buildings with unstable foundations‚ old watercourses and other unsound structures are greatly at risk. What to do to face earthquake Although‚ there is no guarantee of
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Bangladesh Floods 1998 [pic] ----------------------- Prediction: ← Bangladesh is built on delta and floodplain of the Ganges‚ Brahmaputra‚ Meghna River‚ this area is expected to flood. ← The annual flood is expected and is needed to make the land fertile for farming. ← Upwards of 300 million people live on the Ganges delta‚ and this is increasing. Effects: ← 2379 people died. ← Destruction of communication network meant it was impossible to deliver food and medical
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