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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21-005 The Story of the Flood in three Gilgamesh‚ The Metamorphosis and Genesis It is apparent in our class readings‚ that when the gods are angry at the humans they created‚ these gods unleash unforgiving rains to flood the earth‚ and kill the human race. Over the years‚ there have been various texts about these floods. While the occurrences of the floods themselves are continuous throughout these texts‚ they have varying reasons for the cause of the floods and different aftermaths or consequences
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The Molasses Flood of 1919 It was an oddly warm winter day in Boston‚ Massachusetts when a twenty foot high wave of sticky molasses tore through several structures in Boston’s North End. There are several theories on how the molasses tank ruptured in order to cause the flood‚ but historians and engineers have narrowed it down to one most probable cause. In the day‚ molasses was fermented in large amounts to make alcohols used in the booming ammunition manufacturing industry. Arguably one of the
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people that affects the flood. But in the other hand it serves as a lesson that this story might impact us until this present that the wickedness of the people from that time might teach us warning to the future. Noah establish favor in God’s perceptiveness. With precise specific instructions‚ God approach Noah to construct an ark for him and his family together with other race and pair living creatures on the ground. This ark might serve them immunity to the upcoming great flood that will lasts for
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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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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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