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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communities hold a flood insurance plan. In the year 2005 the National Flood Insurance Plan (NFIP) had paid out close to 16 billion. The premiums paid by the 5 million have only surmounted to 2 billion‚ therefore the NFIP has the ability to reach out to the US Treasury. With the US Treasury enabling the NFIP to meet its financial obligations‚ the financial obligations are becoming the obligation of the taxpayers (GAO‚ 2005) (Wells‚ 2005). The goals of the NFIP are “to provide property flood insurance
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Hoffman utilizes weather as a motif to show the recurrence of massive floods. In 1858‚ a massive flood hit the school of Haddan and surrounding area and “After the flood‚ houses in town had to be refloored and reroofed; public building were torn down‚ then refashion from cellar to ceiling…Main Street itself had become a river‚ with waters more than six feet deep” (2). At the end of the book‚ Carlin is coming back to Haddan after a flood hit the town‚“Some of the big white houses would have to be reroofed
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The Boscastle Flood 2004 Boscastle is a village on the North Cornish Coast which receives many tourists annually. The river Valency flows through the village and joins with the river Jordan‚ a tributary of the Valency‚ in the centre of the village. The flood of Boscastle occurred on Monday 16th of August and was one of the worst incidents of flooding in local memory. It was a flash flood event which took many by surprised due to the fact that Boscastle is not prone to regular annual flooding unlike
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2 2 DEFINING FLOODING 2 3 WHAT IS LA NINA 2 4 IMPACT OF FLOODS 2-3 5 MEASURES PUT IN PLACE TO HANDLE FLOODING 3 6 HUMAN IMPACT ON FLOODING 3-4 7 CONCLUSION
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and (3) the Test Process. Hardware Description Firmware Flow Test Process Figure 3.1 Development process 3.1. Hardware Description Figure 3.3 shows the flow of the system when water is detected. The whole unit is turned off when there is no flood detected‚ this can conserve power. When the water detected through the use of float switch that is located at the lower end of the stand‚ the whole unit will turn on. The ultrasonic sensor automatically measures the water level every 3 (three) minutes
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of the mega flood was solved using the scientific method. Geologist Jeff Harlem hypothesized The scablands. Throughout the video you see that ripples are left by the sea in which he noticed that a large vast of water may have been the cause. But just by observing the scab lands they knew they must have formed over a long period of time. The video informs that on January 12‚ 1957 Brett’s proposed a body of water over thousands of years that traveled in ferocious speed causing a flood‚ but the problem
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FLASH FLOOD By aeoncraft Now I know what a flash flood is like. I "spoke" too soon at my last status update. Shortly after that‚ I got cut off from facebook because of a power outage. Barely an hour later‚ brown muddy water started creeping across the floor from under the closed door. I pulled down the main switches even if the power was out and ran to the back to get the piece of plywood which‚ according to my cousin’s instructions (this is his house)‚ I was supposed to place against the
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This is an area around the river that is covered when the river floods. It is a fertile area because of the alluvium (fine layers of clay‚ silt and other sediments that are deposited when the river floods) which makes it a good place for agriculture. In fact‚ if the alluvium is stable enough to support vegetation‚ salt marches may form. A build-up of alluvium can create levees‚ another
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Introduction: Bangladesh is prone to a variety of natural hazards. It has witnessed the havoc of some of the worst natural disasters of the world due to tropical cyclones and storm surges. Floods and local seasonal storms are annual events which cause loss of lives and damage to housing‚ agriculture and economy. The country is also exposed to the risk of earthquakes. There are other natural hazard concerns such as coastal erosion and sea level rise due to global warming‚ which have been in the limelight
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