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    The Flood hits Shurrupak...The reason why is even more shocking! Somya Thakur Hour:2 Last week a flood took place in the the city of Shurrupak‚ a man named Utnapishtim managed to build a boat that lasted seven days and saved the lives of many people and animals. Sources tell us that the gods were the leading cause of this flood‚specifically Enlil. We asked Enlil the reasoning behind the flood‚ his official statement was‚ “The uproar of mankind was intolerable‚therefore‚ I decided to exterminate

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    Flood Acton Plan

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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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    Natural Disaster : Floods

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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 1965 Flood Act

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    The long term effects of the flood control act provision of 1965 The flood control act of control act of 1965 gave authorization to U.S Army Crop of Engineers (USACE) to design and construct a flood protection system to protect south Louisiana from hurricanes. It was called the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project‚ the reason for this project was prior to 1965. The state of Louisiana design and built its own flood protection‚ but on September 9‚ 1965

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    Pakistan Flood 2010

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    The Pakistan flood of 2010 happened on Monday the 26th July 2010 in the villages Khyber Pakhtunkhwa‚ Punjab‚ Sindh‚ Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan. Causes The heavy rains were caused by a monsoon depression (also called a monsoon low) that formed over the Bay of Bengal on July 24‚ crossed over India‚ and reached Pakistan on July 27 Climate change – There was unusually heavy monsoon rains which caused widespread flooding in Pakistan‚ whilst coinciding in Russia unusually high temperatures

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    Flood light event

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    Flood light Box Cricket at PWC The Panthaky Baug Welfare Center (PWC) flagged off their first ever floodlight Box Cricket Tournament at the colony grounds on 26th and 27th of October 2013. The event saw an encouraging participation of 16 teams from various parsi groups across Mumbai‚ who were cheered from the stands by enthusiastic spectators bearing the scorching October heat along with the players. It was after a decade that PWC had organized such an encouraging event for the youth of our community

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    Cumbria floods 2009

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    Cumbria Floods 2009 Between Wednesday 18 November and Friday 20 November 2009‚ up to 372mm of rain fell on Cumbria. In the 24 hours ending 00:45 on Friday the 20th‚ 314mm of rain fell on Seathwaite. This is a record daily rainfall for the UK. The rainfall earlier in the week ensured that the ground was saturated in many areas. Flooding occurred in five out of the six Boroughs‚ the only one escaping being Barrow. The effect on properties was concentrated in Allerdale and South Lakeland with the most

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    Morning at Dukes Annie Sturm Eileen McCullough Watercolor 1 Huntington Beach Art League Central Library Exhibition The two main watercolor techniques used in the painting are glazing and wet into wet. Glazing is an essential part of this landscape to show deep pictorial space‚ specifically with the palm trees. The effect glazing and wet into wet have together plays a strong role of setting the atmosphere in this painting. Wet into wet then glazing go hand in hand by using the

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    David

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    Assignment #4 Hed 116-005 1. Throughout his struggle‚ David did many things to try and help his survival on a day to day basis. In David’s worst of times he would pass the time by fantasizing to help ease his mind and or to block out whatever horrific game his mother wanted to play. " I fantasized i was a prince or a comic book hero"‚ David often would imagine. When David’s hunger pains became more than he could bare he resulted to eating "scraps" from the garbage‚ dog food bowls‚ and

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    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was of the most powerful natural disasters of the 1900’s in 11 states along the Mississippi River from Illinois to Louisiana. The flood lasted from the beginning of April‚ through May‚ June and July and finally ended in August. During the flood‚ the river got to be as wide as 80 miles in some places and submerged residential areas in as much as 30 feet of water. The flood affected multiple states and the country in countless ways. Some of the ways it changed the

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