The Pakistani Floods of 2010 by The British Geographer The Causes of the Flood Physical Causes From its headwaters in the Himalayas of Tibet‚ the River Indus flows northwest through India before turning sharply south across Pakistan. It finally discharges into the Arabian Sea‚ a journey of some 3‚200km (2‚000 miles). The River Indus has an annual flood caused by tropical monsoon rainfall. It’s rich alluvium floodplain led to one of the cradles of civilization‚ 9000 years ago. However‚ this flood’s
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the Flood‚ " God surely proved his intelligence‚ strength‚ and aggression to the evils of the earth. In the story "Noah and the Flood" God saw that the world was full of corruption and lawlessness so he decided to send a great flood to extinguish all of the earth’s evilness. God saw no fault in Noah and entrusted him with the task of building an enormous ark to shelter Noah along with his wife‚ his three sons accompanied by each of their wives‚ and two of every animal on earth from the flood. The
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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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Stream‚ and River Level Monitoring System The Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and the Cities of Napa and St. Helena operate and maintain a network of weather stations that provide real time rainfall data and stream and river levels throughout Napa County‚ which can be accessed by clicking on the following link: Napa Valley Regional Rainfall and Stream Monitoring System. The website presents data from a network of some 50 gages that record rainfall and stream and river levels
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FLOOD A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land which is usually dry.[1] The European Union (EU) Floods Directive defines a flood as a covering by water of land not normally covered by water.[2] In the sense of "flowing water"‚ the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Flooding may occur as an overflow of water from water bodies‚ such as a river or lake‚ in which the water overtops or breaks levees‚ resulting in some of that water escaping its usual boundaries‚[3] or it may
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The Causes of Flood Disaster is a natural or man-made phenomenon that has causes many human deaths‚ damage houses and crops‚ and cause extensive destruction. Flood is one of the disasters that always happen in the world including in Malaysia. Many causes can contribute to flood happen. Although there are various causes of flood‚ these are the three major factors that can make it become more destructive which are the extreme weather pattern at certain location of the place‚ human activities
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EFFECTS OF FLOODS Floods are mostly caused by the intensive rainfall that incereases the water level dramatically and results excessive water overflow that might have some devastating effects on te endangerd areas. This unexpected hazard might have a significant impact on both economy and human beings. Firstly‚ an overflow of the expanse of water has a considerable impact on the economy of the country. The submergence of the land‚ results in a destruction of buildings and roads which ‚ in
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The Uttarakhand Tragedy In June 2013‚ a multi-day cloudburst centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand caused devastating floods and landslides in the country’s worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami. Though some parts of Himachal Pradesh‚ Haryana‚ Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in India‚ some regions of Western Nepal‚ and some parts of Western Tibet also experienced heavy rainfall‚ over 95% of the casualties occurred in Uttarakhand. As of 16 July 2013‚ according to figures provided by
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African Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 7(7)‚ pp. 1054-1067‚ 19 February‚ 2012 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJAR DOI: 10.5897/AJARX11.036 ISSN 1991-637X ©2012 Academic Journals Review A critical analysis of 2010 floods in Pakistan Hashim Nisar Hashmi1‚ Qazi Tallat Mahmood Siddiqui1*‚ Abdul Razzaq Ghumman1‚ Mumtaz Ahmed Kamal1 and Habib ur Rehman Mughal2 1 2 Department of Civil Engineering‚ University of Engineering and Technology‚ Taxila‚ Pakistan. Department
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The Great flood is a historical event that may have happened before 0 BC‚ this was an event that flooded the whole world which have possibly wiped out human and plant existence. There are several different evidence that suggest the happening of the Great flood which include the several geological shaping which can only be created with a massive flood‚ the several different theories that different cultures and religions have mentioned and the possible existence of the Noahs arc however the fact remains
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