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    Dreadful Monster

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    Dreadful Monster Flood is one of the highly devastating natural disasters. Every year thousands of people die of this unpredictable monster. Wherever it goes it will cause great loss. Fields will be ruined‚ houses will be washed away and many people will become homeless. Devastating as it is‚ it still can give a new beginning to the whole world‚ which is shown in the story of “Noah’s Ark”. Those are all the impressions I fell about floods through TV shows and my mother’s bedtime stories. The sight

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    have been made into farmland. Even there was 71‚532 irrigable land there’s only 61‚500 acres of irrigated land being used according to “Summary of Statics for Yuma Project of Development”. The Project help many people out with business and to stop floods from coming. Even though it help people businesses it also hurt people that depend on the river such as steamboats. Also since they built the Hoover Dam it took some water from Mexico to distribute more water to the U.S. So people that live in San

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    2 LOCATION(MAPS) 3 AIM/OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY 6 PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF THE DATA 7 CONCLUSION AND BIBLOGRAPHY GLOSSARY INTRODUCTION Jamaica has experienced an increase in the frequency of natural events‚ primarily floods‚ droughts and landslides over the last 25-30 years. The impact of these hazards has proven to be disastrous in several instances resulting in significant social dislocation and monumental economic losses. Between 1998 and 2004‚ we had approximately

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    natural disaster due to its inherent nature and climatic conditions. Earthquakes ranging in severity‚ floods or flash flood‚ and glacial lake outbursts are common among other hazards. Monsoon is the time (almost every year) when few water-induced disasters take place in some form or another in various places across this mountain. Cloudbursts‚ that is sudden and violent rainfall‚ followed by flash floods are generally reported in the monsoon period. Such events are related to extreme hydrometeorolgical

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    result from their development which include high flood risk and the conflict caused. The development of river basins such as the River Colorado‚ USA (an HIC) has led to unequal water distribution and many environmental problems downstream due to lack of scientific knowledge‚ which has caused conflict in the 7 states the river cater too. Urbanisation in the river basin in Bangladesh‚ one of the poorest countries in the world‚ has increased the flood risk enormously and has meant that the local people

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    hits‚ the rain that is falling adds to the already high water levels that are in the Red River. When it reaches Morris‚ the river spills its banks and floods in Morris‚ devastating the community. The economic impact the flooding has on Morris‚ is the $1‚456‚600 it cost to rebuild the community after the flooding occurred. Also‚ during the 3 floods in the 1970’s it cost $37‚600‚000 in repairs. One environmental impact the flooding has on the Morris Region and its’ surroundings is the loss of vegetation

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    counts flood cost Four deaths confirmed from torrential rains that have drenched Australia’s east coast‚ recalling 2010-2011 disaster * ‚ Tuesday 29 January 2013 03.13 EST * Jump to comments (197) Rescuers check a flooded area of Rosalie in Brisbane‚ the Queensland capital. Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA A fourth person has died in flood-affected areas on Australia’s east coast as communities across the states of New South Wales and Queensland count the cost of a second major flood disaster

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    One of the major hazards that many communities have dealt with in the recent past is flooding. The Memphis metropolitan area is no different. In fact‚ The Memphis metro area dealt with severe flooding as recently as 2011. With this being said‚ the overall goal of mitigation is an important factor in the preparation and response to disasters such as these. That goal being‚ to create economically secure‚ socially stable‚ better built‚ and more environmentally sound communities that are out of harm’s

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    properties on the sea front including the post office. They were known as Walcott Flood Wardens. Some of them were fishermen so were very familiar with how the weather conditions could cause major problems with the sea. Two of them are still flood wardens today. In 1997‚ the parish council decided that the flood wardens should change their name as it was putting people off of buying property in Walcott knowing that there were flood wardens monitoring the sea in case of flooding and someone suggested they

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    FLOOD MITIGATION PLAN IN KEDAH 1.0. Introduction Malaysia’s rapid development with the implementation of major programs in agriculture‚ infrastructure‚ industrial and commercial. However‚ like other countries‚ Malaysia is not spared from facing the problem of flooding either natural or caused by development and logging are not planned. Therefore‚ Malaysia took the initiative to create and implement flood mitigation projects to reduce flood-hit areas. Implementation of flood mitigation projects

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