Writer: Linber LewisSchool: President’s College‚ GuyanaIf one asks the question‚ what can floods do?‚ then the following may seem like fitting answers. During the summer monsoon season‚ heavy rains cause destructive floods in Southeast Asia. In China‚ the floods of the Huang He River have been so frequent and devastating that the river is called Chinas Sorrow. Likewise in the US‚ record spring and summer rains in 1993 caused the Mississippi Rover to overflow its banks‚ flooding farms and towns from
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Analyzing: “The Victims” by Sharon Olds “The Victims” by Sharon Olds is a poem‚ which gives us an elaborated and refined view of a tortured family in our modern society. It describes the immature resentment of the young speaker and her family towards the father‚ and the more mature expression of sympathy of the grown up speaker. The poem is divided into two parts‚ easy to spot due to a sudden change in the verb tenses‚ speaker‚ tone and purpose. The first part of the poem‚ transmits to the reader
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| | 1. | | | | | Flood Action Plan (FAP) an initiative to study the causes and nature of flood in Bangladesh and to prepare guidelines for controlling it. FAP was based on several earlier studies by UNDP‚ a French Engineering consortium‚ USAID and JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). The FAP included 29 different components of which 11 were regional‚ with some pilot projects‚ and the rest were supporting studies on issues like Environment‚ Fisheries‚ Geographic Information
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Floods There are many natural disasters that occur all over the world. Earthquakes‚ tsunamis‚ tornados‚ and even volcanic eruptions are dangerous to humans and can negatively affect their lives for the worst. There is one natural disaster that some people fear the most‚ which is known as floods or flash floods. Floods have devastated the United States for centuries and have taken many lives and resources. These natural disasters have been seen in the Midwestern and Southwestern areas of the United
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The Johnstown Flood The Johnstown flood is tragic story. Almost a myth these days‚ thousands of lives were lost only hundreds saved. David McCullough artfully tells the story of the dam that broke‚ because of ignorance and neglect‚ and the individual lives that it affected‚ he crafts together the facts of the disaster with the emotion making you see and feel the pain and hurt. When the huge dam broke and hundreds of thousands of gallons of water went rushing down into the valley there was nothing
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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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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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Mother Nature Recent floods in the Sun City are an excellent example of "fooling with Mother Nature." Arroyos are creek beds that are usually dry and covered with plants and trees; they also attract wildlife in search of food and shelter. Arroyos are nature’s way of providing natural barriers that can prevent flooding by providing channels for water to drain away from populations. The storm that escalated on August 1‚ 2006‚ serves as a warning to local politicians and developers who want to develop
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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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how much damage rain and water can do. While our city has tried many different options such as sand bags. Built 3 reservoirs‚ and stopped building new houses in flood zones it just seems like none of them work. The problem is that Findlay is getting more rain than the Blanchard River can hold water‚ which is making the city of Findlay flood. In my opinion we have a couple of choices of ways to get around ruining our homes and lives‚ which would be corralling the rain to different location‚ creating
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