After The Floods - Flood Advice AFTER THE floods FLOOD ADVICE. Flash floods and floods are the 1 weather-related killer with around 140 deaths recorded in the US each year. http://www.afterthefloods.com/
Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Danish Japanese Korean Arabic Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW BUDAPEST, Hungary Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes as unseasonably high flood waters threaten a large part of eastern Europe. Areas of Hungary, Romania and the Ukraine are at risk from three rivers the Tisza, Tur and Szamos which have been swollen by heavy recent rain and melting snow. The Tisza, Hungary's second largest river, rose by over six metres at the weekend as a result of rapidly melting snow and two days of rain in neighbouring Ukraine. A state of emergency has been declared in Hungary after flood waters forced the evacuation of thousands of people. On Tuesday, more than 7,000 people were evacuated from their flood-threatened homes in eight villages, the local news agency MTI reported. Among them were hundreds of people evacuated from the village of Kispalad, which is adjacent to Hungary's boarders with Ukraine and Romania, after floodwaters broke through a dyke. In Romania, about 1,600 people have been evacuated from their homes in 80 villages.
Environment Agency - East Coast Floods 1953 Text Only Tuesday 25 May 2004, You are in Your Environment East Coast floods 1953. Environment Agency, East Coast floods 1953. On http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/yourenv/426221/?version=1&lang3=_e
Extractions: Information online top of the page (K. Graf / historicum.net) Koordinierung von Hilfsleistungen (Deutscher Museumsbund) Floods in Europe: Damages to libraries and archives (UNESCO) Aktuelle Hinweise (Weblog Netbib) Forum Bestandserhaltung - Sonderseite Flutkatastrophe Information about Czech archives after the flood (Collegium Carolinum) (Archivschule Marburg) (Deutscher Bibliotheksverband) Informationen zur Flutkatastrophe (Berufsverband Information Bibliothek) (IADA) (Rundbrief Fotografie) Flood in Jewish Prague (Jewish Museum / Prague Jewish Community)
ReliefWeb: Natural Disasters, ReliefWeb: , ReliefWeb: Archived information, from 1981 to the present, about major natural disasters, including floods, droughts, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, and cyclones, focussing on international humanitarian relief efforts. From the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLND
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Nuke Cops™ - Syn Floods Against Nuke Cops Syn floods against Nuke Cops. SecurityWe experienced some down time today to what appears to have been a SYN Flood against our server http://nukecops.com/article-2044-nested-0-0.html
Flash Floods And Hail: Property And Personal Devastation . Flash floods and Hail. property and personal devastation. Cases involving either slowmoving thunderstorms or a series of storms http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/svr/dngr/flood.rxml
Extractions: Flash Floods and Hail property and personal devastation Cases involving either slow-moving thunderstorms or a series of storms which move repeatedly across the same area (sometimes called train-echo storms) frequently result in flash flooding. The total number of flash flood deaths has exceeded tornado fatalities during the last several decades. Photograph by: NWS Two factors seem to be responsible for this: public apathy regarding the flash flood threat and increased urbanization. When concrete replaces soil, rain water will run off rather than soak in. Flash flood producing rainfall has made this type of dramatic rescue attempt (pictured above) all too familiar, especially in urban areas and popular mountain camping spots. Another danger associated with thunderstorms, especially to personal property, is hail. This hailfall occurred in Altus, Oklahoma in 1982 and was accompanied by several tornadoes . Hail causes more monetary loss than any other type of thunderstorm-spawned severe weather.
Extractions: Web posted at: 8:36 p.m. EDT (0036 GMT) From staff and wire reports FOREST FALLS, California Two people are dead after flash floods sent homes sliding down mountains of mud in the town of Forest Falls Sunday afternoon. An adult woman died late Sunday afternoon, and a second woman died of injuries Monday afternoon, according to Capt. Jack Fox of the San Bernardino County Fire Department. Three people were airlifted Sunday to hospitals in the area. Two elderly victims were evacuated and also transported Monday. Dogs were used Monday to search for bodies in the wreckage left by the flash flood, which sent a wall of water, mud and boulders through the mountain hamlet. Fourteen homes were destroyed and debris choked the main thoroughfare of the town in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Oxford Brookes - 8307 Environmental Geology - Floods Flash floods. Flash Flood Forecasting Techniques and Limitations (slide show). Lowland floods. Stream Gaging and Flood Forecasting. Case Studies. Asia. http://www.brookes.ac.uk/geology/8307/floods.html
Before Noah, There Were The Lake Missoula Floods The floods That Carved the West In a great geological catastrophe, a giant lake exploded through an Ice Age dam, and its waters http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues95/apr95/missoula.html
Extractions: In a great geological catastrophe, a giant lake exploded through an Ice Age dam, and its waters swept across the Pacific Northwest; awesome signs of its passage are still visible to this day Fifteen thousand years ago, during the last Ice Age, a glacial dam collapsed in what is now northern Idaho, releasing the waters of a giant inland sea known as Lake Missoula. Five hundred cubic miles of water rampaged westward at 60 miles an hour in a torrent flowing with ten times the volume of all the rivers on earth. The flood carved canyons, gouged out enormous plunge pools, made rivers like the Snake and the Willamette run backward and scoured the earth of eastern Washington right down to bare basalt rock. The flood may have happened not just once, but many times, as the glacier periodically crept forward again to recreate the lake. Today the landscape of the Pacific Northwest still bears the signs of these cataclysms: the flood-scoured scablands of eastern Washington, giant rocks near Portland transported all the way from Idaho by the flood, potholes and plunge pools dug by waterfalls that would have dwarfed Niagara many times over. Today both government and private organizations are exploring the idea of creating a kind of tourist trail, so that visitors to the region can learn the story of the flood, and see the enormous footprints that it left behind. Abstract of an article by Michael Parfit. Originally published in the April 1995 issue of
What To Do Before And After floods. Though governments at every level work to reduce the risk of floods, the first line of defence always rests with the individual. http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/burema/coem/flood/flwhbeaf/index.cfm
Extractions: Coping with Emergencies Floods What to do before and after Beyond the human toll taken in lives and suffering, flood damage costs Canadian taxpayers millions of dollars annually. Though governments at every level work to reduce the risk of floods, the first line of defence always rests with the individual. Each of us has a responsibility to protect our homes and families to the greatest extent possible. By planning ahead and taking sensible precautions, you can do your part to minimize flood damage. Flood threats to particular areas can usually be forecast in a number of ways: Flash or sudden flooding, in which warning time is extremely limited, can result from other causes such as earthquakes, tsunamis or tidal waves, hurricanes. violent storms or bursting of dams. In all cases, local government authorities try to keep residents informed of developments in areas most likely to be affected by flooding. Regular media advisories will recommend actions people should take to limit or prevent disaster. As the need arises, more detailed instructions by municipal or provincial authorities will be given.
Extractions: WEB SERVICES: GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) Floods have made more than a million people homeless in India's northeastern state of Assam where the army and air force have been called in to help rescue efforts, officials said on Friday. Hundreds of villages have been inundated by the overflowing River Brahmaputra and its tributaries which have been rising as heavy rains continued for the second day on Thursday.
Pilot Projects On Floods Pilot Projects on floods. The JRC aims to complement Member State activities towards floods in terms of prevention, preparedness, and damage assessment. http://natural-hazards.jrc.it/floods/
Extractions: When river banks are overtopped through rising flood waters, the results can be devastating. Pictures like this one, taken during the Po flood in 2000, are only too familiar. And the year has also started with hurricane force winds and torrential rains across Europe, killing at least six people, flooding tens of thousands of homes and hampering rail, road and waterway traffic during the first week of January. Winds of nearly 200 kph (125 mph) and flooding caused chaos in Germany, France, Britain, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic with barge traffic halted on key rivers and toppled trees blocking roads and rail lines ( Reuters News Service story This summary of events seems to support projections of future climate indicating that further increase in severe floods in North and Northwest Europe are likely (e.g. IPCC, 2001). The JRC aims to complement Member State activities towards floods in terms of prevention preparedness , and damage assessment . The activities of the Floods Group of the IES W eather D riven N atural H azards Action therefore focus on Prevention : Evaluation of flood defence strategies in trans-national catchments via scenario studies on technical measures, land-use change, historic land-use changes, and climate change.
Extractions: From staff and wire reports CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) Venezuelan officials say tens of thousands of people are dead, missing or homeless from days of torrential rain, floods and mudslides. VIDEO Correspondent Harris Whitbeck reports on the impact of the deadly floods Real Windows Media MESSAGE BOARD Venzuela reforms
Disaster : Mozambique: Floods - Jan 2000 ReliefWeb Disaster Status Published, Disaster Mozambique floods Jan 2000, Modified by Unit OCHA-Kobe 11/14/2003, floods - Jan 2000. http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/0A1BE5B9774242F5C12568720058A814?OpenDocume
