A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas - washes‚ rivers‚ dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a storm‚ hurricane‚ or tropical storm or melt water from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields. Flash floods can also occur after the collapse of a natural ice or debris dam‚ or a human structure such as a man-made dam‚ as occurred before the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Flash floods are distinguished from a regular flood by a timescale less
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To this day‚ California has been in a drought. The governor‚ Jerry Brown is struggling to create policies to prevent people from using large amounts of water. He has made proposals to reduce the water use in California by building tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to increase the supply of water. One of the reasons California is in a drought is because of our history of dealing with the gold miners using hydraulic mining to mine gold‚ and damming the Tuolumne River to provide water for
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"When the flood waters recede‚ the poor folk along the river start from scratch." In Richard Wright’s "The Man Who Saw the Flood‚" the catastrophic flood-losses facing a poor family of sharecroppers reveal the circumstances that force the emancipated but still ignorant and debased blacks to become indebted to and thus re-enslaved by the same whites from whom they received freedom. Wright’s resigned yet resolute protagonists show that even hollow hopes can drive people to noble perseverance in
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When floods develop‚ the places in which they do so are called water sheds. These water sheds can be either man made or they can be natural. A watershed is defined as an area that is between a land mass and a water source. A watershed can be a lake or a river. If this particular watershed is working appropriately‚ then the water should be drained into the ground naturally. However‚ if there is too much snowfall or rainfall‚ then the watershed cannot hold so much water and this results in overflowing
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the biggest reason leading The Dust Bowl occurred‚ the climate of The Great Plain’s region consists of an average of less than 20 inches of precipitation per year and winds normally reach the speed of 60 miles per hour. Scientists believed that the drought that caused the Dust Bowl Era between 1930 and 1937 occurred because of a La Niña event in the Pacific Ocean. Where cool ocean surface temperatures reduced the amount of moisture entering the jet stream and directed it south to the U.S.‚ where it
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COMPUTER: Computer is an electronic machine that stores‚ receives‚ process and calculation the data very quickly according the instrument. OR Computer is an electronic machine. Actual computer word taken from “Compute” which upon to calculate. It is an input device and out put device .Machine which do the work fast and approximately computer mostly use mathematical purpose.
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country-side of Australia called the outback is where they live and where they thrive. Australian weather is hot and dry‚ but these smart‚ brave Budgies find ways to deal with it and are so used to it. In Australia‚ they have many droughts throughout the whole year. These droughts affect the Budgie population greatly. Quite a few Budgies don’t survive for a while if they don’t have enough food available or water present. The weather and temperature in Australia can be
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Brandon Dendas Mrs. Whittaker Sophomore English March 22‚ 2009 A Comparison Essay about “Flood” and “Flying” The purpose of a descriptive essay is to describe a person‚ place‚ or thing in much detail. The author’s purpose is to recreate their experience in a way in which the reader can visualize the actual event. An essayist and poet known for writing these types of descriptive essays is Annie Dillard. Her essays consist of various types of imagery‚ which applies to all the senses‚ like sight
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All over the world‚ cultures have myths of a catastrophic flood occurring. The causes and details of the flood differ from culture to culture‚ but the common theme among all these myths is the occurrence of a devastating flood. While there may be few similarities between the histories of past cultures of‚ for instance‚ those that existed in ancient Greece and China‚ a flood myth is a common theme among them. Is it simply a coincidence that this myth is prevalent across the globe? Many researchers
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FLOODS A river flood is a flow in excess of the channel capacity to accommodate the peak discharge‚ and occurs when the amount of water arriving on land exceeds the capacity of the land to discharge that water by infiltration‚ surface flow or drainage pipes. Flooding of river valleys and coastal areas is the most frequent of natural hazards and is one of the most significant in terms of death‚ injuries and long-term social and economic impacts. Flooding regularly claims over 20‚000 lives a year
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