101. Two Dead As Floods Swamp Eastern Australia CNN http://cnn.com/2001/WEATHER/03/11/australia.floods.reut/index.html

102. Driving In Floods - Advice From RAC - UK Advice checklists Driving in floods. If you live in an area where flooding may occur, move your vehicle to higher ground if flooding is expected. http://www.rac.co.uk/carcare/advice/general_help/floods

Home Contact us My RAC Site map ... General help Floods Search Driving in floods If you live in an area where flooding may occur, move your vehicle to higher ground if flooding is expected. As well as the risk of damage to your vehicle by leaving it in a flooded area, it may also be a hazard or cause obstruction to emergency services. Tips for driving in flood conditions Do not drive unless your journey is absolutely necessary. Plan your journey to avoid flooded areas and make sure you allow plenty of time. Listen to local media broadcasts or call RAC's Traffic and Travel Service from a land line on or from any mobile phone. Take spare dry clothing, food, a flask of hot drink and if you have a mobile phone make sure you have the telephone number for contacting the emergency services. If you have to drive in a flooded area take care. Do not attempt to drive through water if you are unsure of the depth. Other than potential damage to your vehicle, many vehicles require only two feet of water before they float. On some vehicles the level of water where damage may be likely is only a few inches deep.

103. Floods Sweep Away Five In India CNN http://cnn.com/2002/WEATHER/09/05/india.floods.reut/index.html

104. Landmines In Mozambique: After The Floods (HRW Briefing Paper, March 2000) Human Rights Watch report on the impact of the floods on landmine clearance. http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/mines-moz.htm

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH HOME SITEMAP SEARCH CONTACT ... ARMS Division - HRW World Report 2000 FREE Join the HRW Mailing List Landmines in Mozambique: After the Floods By Mary Wareham, Human Rights Watch Paper prepared for Conference on Mozambique After the Floods Tuesday, 28 March 2000, Washington DC. While the floods in Mozambique during the past month have undoubtedly reversed much of the progress made recently on many fronts in Mozambique, their impact on the country's well-established mine action programmes remains mostly unknown at this point. It is not yet possible to evaluate the impact of the floods that have devastated the southern and central region of the country, including the mine-affected provinces of Maputo, Gaza, Inhambane, Sofala and Manica. Most areas affected are still inundated by the floods with the possibility of more floods as river levels increase again. In the areas where the flood is receding, there is still little mobility with few villagers returning home. In addition to mines, many other life-threatening problems confront Mozambique as a result of the flooding including the threats of malaria and cholera. Related Material Landmine Monitor Report 1999 Toward a Mine-Free World The main danger with respect to mines is however very clear: there is no certainty as to where the mines are now because landmines and buried explosives, shift like stones in rushing water, and tend to move downstream following gravity. Some of the antipersonnel mines used in Mozambique were made of plastic and float in water. According to Gerhard Zank, the Mozambique representative of the Halo Trust, a British demining agency: "In the past, mines have been washed downstream in heavy rains, but we never had flooding on this massive scale before. We just don't know what the effect will be."

105. CNN.com - Monsoon Floods Recede In Malaysia - January 2, 2002 CNN http://cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/01/02/malaysia.floods/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. WEATHER ... ABOUT US/HELP CNN TV what's on show transcripts CNN Headline News CNN International EDITIONS CNN.com Asia CNN.com Europe CNNenEspanol.com CNNArabic.com ... set your edition Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 Monsoon floods recede in Malaysia Heavy rains already caused the closure of several roads in some eastern states back in November. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia After days of widespread flooding in peninsular Malaysia, thousands of people have begun to return home as the waters recede. Heavy annual monsoon rains left four children dead and one missing the victim of a mudslide that swept away hillside houses, according to the Bernama state news agency. Three states in the east including Johor, Terengganu and Pahang had to evacuate people to relief centers when swollen rivers, land and mudslides wreaked havoc. The deluge has also affected farmers in the central Cameron Highlands, causing potential losses to produce and blocking routes to markets. Many roads became impassable, including a number of routes over the mountains to the capital Kuala Lumpur, due to landslides and rising floodwater.

106. FloodsTheme Page This CLN menu page provides links to science curricular resources and instructional materials (lesson plans) in the specific topic of floods. floods Theme Page. http://www.cln.org/themes/floods.html

Floods Theme Page Below are the CLN "Theme Pages" which supplement the study of floods. CLN's theme pages are collections of useful Internet educational resources within a narrow curricular topic and contain links to two types of information. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme. Natural Disasters Avalanches Theme Page Blizzards Theme Page Earthquakes Theme Page Hurricanes Theme Page ... Water Quality Theme Page General Floods Resources Here are a number of links to other Internet resources which contain information and/or other links related to floods. Please read our Flood Hazard Management The BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection provides various information about flooding in BC including: flood hazard management, floodplain mapping, emergency response (e.g., sandbag dike construction), picture images. Dartmouth Flood Observatory Dartmouth College in the US uses remote sensing technology as a tool for early detection, mapping, measurement, and analysis of world-wide extreme flood events. In addition to downloadable satellite images, there is a register of international large river flooding for the last several years in their site.

107. ùèôåðåú - ãó ôåúç The summary for this Hebrew page contains characters that cannot be correctly displayed in this language/character set. http://www.snunit.k12.il/vmuseum/floods/

108. CNN.com - Chavez Declares State Of Emergency After Floods, Heavy Rains Threaten CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/11/15/venezuela.floodalert.ap/index.html

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109. More Floods To Come: Build On Hills, Modelling Of Past And Present Climate Warns More floods to come. Build on hills, modelling of past and present climate warns. 31 January 2002 HEIKE LANGENBERG. A taste of climate change to come? http://www.nature.com/nsu/020128/020128-7.html

updated at midnight GMT search nature science update advanced search More floods to come Build on hills, modelling of past and present climate warns. 31 January 2002 HEIKE LANGENBERG A taste of climate change to come? The flood warnings are out again in the UK this week. Last year, record rainfalls hit England, causing widespread flooding. Around 11,000 people were evacuated from homes and businesses and the railway network was brought to its knees. Two studies now show that the future may hold many more sandbagged river banks and submerged streets. Climate scientists shrug off the question of whether the catastrophic winter of 2000 was a taste of climate change to come, or if it was just extraordinarily wet, a freak event unlikely to recur in the near future. "Scientifically, this is not a meaningful question," says Tim Palmer of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading, UK. This gloomy prognosis is backed up by work from Christopher Milly of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, and co-workers . They find evidence of increasing numbers of great floods in the largest river basins globally over the past 100 years, and agree that floods are likely to continue to become more frequent.

110. Strong Storm, Floods Kill Four In Western Turkey CNN http://cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/08/02/turkey.floods.reut/index.html

111. Climate Studies Point To More Floods In This Century This Story The Environment. Related Sites Stories. - E-mail this story. Sponsored in part by. Climate Studies Point to More floods in This Century http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0130_020130_greatfloods.html

Sign up for our free e-mail newsletter Also see: Today's Top Stories This Story The Environment E-mail this story Sponsored in part by Climate Studies Point to More Floods in This Century Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News January 30, 2002 Two separate teams of scientists are predicting more extreme rainfall and greater flooding in this century. Sunken Neighborhood Rains from Hurricane Floyd in September 1999 caused flooding that submerged many homes and businesses in Princeville, North Carolina. Photograph by Joe Skipper/Reuters/CORBIS More News Kids News The Environment Travel National Geographic Channel Special Series Emerging Explorers TravelWatch National Geographic Out There Oceans ... Pulse of the Planet Both teams, one from the United States and the other from Europe, attribute the expected pattern to global warming accelerated by human activities. Although people may adapt to gradual climate change, the effects of extreme rain and flooding are often broad, devastating, and costly to society. Landslides, avalanches, and flooding damage infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and buildings, and hurt agricultural productivity because of lost crops and soil erosion. Disaster relief often requires enormous funding, and the loss of human life may also be high. The two new studies, published in the January 31 issue of the journal

112. Northwest Mozambique Hit By Floods CNN http://cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/01/05/mozambique.flooding.ap/index.html

113. Floods Swept Ancient Nile Cities Away, Expert Says This Story Archaeology Paleontology. Related Sites Stories. - E-mail this story. Sponsored in part by. floods Swept Ancient Nile Cities Away, Expert Says http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/10/1017_NileCities.html

Sign up for our free e-mail newsletter Also see: Today's Top Stories This Story E-mail this story Sponsored in part by Floods Swept Ancient Nile Cities Away, Expert Says By Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News October 17, 2001 Two cities that lay at the edge of the Mediterranean more than 1,200 years ago, Herakleion and Eastern Canopus, disappeared suddenly, swallowed by the sea. Now, an international team of scientists may have figured out the mystery of why it happened. The researchers have concluded that the two cities collapsed when the land they were built on suddenly liquefied. Pyramids and the Nile River, 1918 The cities of Herakleion and Eastern Canopus lay at the edge of the Mediterranean more than 1,200 years ago, but disappeared suddenly when they were swallowed by the sea. Scientists say it occurred because the land on which the cities were built liquefied. Photograph from Bettmann/Corbis More News Kids News The Environment Travel National Geographic Channel Special Series Emerging Explorers TravelWatch National Geographic Out There Oceans ... Pulse of the Planet Since then, there has been much speculation about why the cities disappeared so suddenly. Earthquakes, subsistence conditions, and a rise in sea level have all been suggested as possibilities. "There are no written documents on how, when, or why these two cities went down," said Jean-Daniel Stanley, a geoarchaeologist with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

114. Strategic Action Issue Area: Mozambique And Southern Africa Floods Africa Policy Information Center Strategic Action Issue Area. Links to key sites and documents relevant to ongoing developments in the floods in Mozambique and neighboring Southern African countries. http://www.africapolicy.org/action/floods.htm

Africa Policy Home Page About Strategic Action Issues Strategic Action Issue Area: Mozambique and Southern Africa Floods Written March 7, 2000 (updated March 10) As this is written, the international relief operation in Mozambique is finally into high gear. So is the debate about to what extent the response to catastrophic floods in Mozambique and neighboring countries was too little and too late, illustrating yet again the double standard of the world's response to crises in Africa. Yet there are also significant new features in the response to the crisis. Fundraising and volunteer contributions from within Mozambique, from neighboring South Africa and from around Africa (the Organization of African Unity, Malawi, Ghana, and other countries) are at much higher levels than in previous African natural or human-caused disasters. Contributions have even been received from East Timor, a fellow ex-Portuguese colony. Perhaps it is because Mozambique arouses particular sympathy because of its decades of suffering from war, only to be hit with yet another colossal human tragedy. Perhaps it is because Mozambique despite its poverty is one of the African countries most proficient in using the internet. Perhaps it is because communication within Africa is improving. Nevertheless, there is the usual danger in response to international crises, that the world's attention will be fleeting more focused on the dramatic helicopter rescues or immediate relief needs than on the rebuilding efforts that Mozambicans repeatedly stress must be built into the response. It is also likely that international agencies will get greater resources than their Mozambican counterparts, and that existing Mozambican and regional organizations will be weakened rather than strengthened by some outside efforts.

115. Beehive.govt.nz - Flood Relief Programme The Government has moved on many fronts to provide relief from the February floods. Big challenge to rebuild districts devastated by floods. Hon Jim Anderton. http://www.beehive.govt.nz/floods/home.cfm

Flood Relief (Helpline 0800 779 997) The Government has moved on many fronts to provide relief from the February floods. This page holds links to relevant information across the Beehive site and links to Government agencies that are dealing with the emergency. Ministers' releases on assistance Links to relevant Government agencies General preparedness Confirmation of details of the aid package for flood-affected farmers and crop growers - Release Hon Jim Sutton Minister for Rural Affairs 08 April 2004 The criteria for the Government's aid package to flood-affected farmers and crop growers is explained. Read full release Government agriculture aid package information brochure - Release Hon Jim Sutton Minister for Rural Affairs 08 April 2004 Brochure explaining the criteria for the Government's aid package to flood-affected farmers and crop growers. Read full release Govt flood recovery spending expected to cost about $130 million - Release Rt. Hon Helen Clark Prime Minister 17 March 2004 Prime Minister Helen Clark, Agricultural Minister Jim Sutton and Civil Defence Minister George Hawkins today announced details of a purpose-designed package for those affected by the February floods. Read full release Further relief for flooded areas - Release Hon George Hawkins Minister of Civil defence 17 March 2004 The Government has announced a further assistance package for communities and local authorities affected by February's floods.

116. Floodplain Management Association Home Page Information about flooding, floodplains, and flood protection. Also links to other web resources related to floods, flooding, and floodplain management. http://www.floodplain.org/

HEC-HMS 3-Day Class July 13 - 15, 2004 Auburn, California Instructed by Marty Teal, P.E., P.H. Get the Flyer for Details. FMA Conference September 7 - 10, 2004 Monterey Plaza Hotel Get the conference program flyer as a PDF! Registration Form - Sign-up Here! Show your commitment to floodplain management by sponsoring a session or exhibiting your company's successes! Welcome to the Floodplain Management Association The Floodplain Management Association is a nonprofit educational association. It was established in 1990 to promote the reduction of flood losses and to encourage the protection and enhancement of natural floodplain values through the use of effective wetland management strategies and engineering technologies. Members include representatives of federal, state and local government agencies as well as private consulting and construction firms. Our Mission The purposes of the Floodplain Management Association are to: Promote awareness on the part of the public and public officials of the nature and extent of flood problems and encourage wise use and management of floodplains.

117. WaterWatch -- Maps And Graphs Of Current Water Resources Conditions WaterWatch Maps and graphs of current (realtime, daily, weekly) USGS streamflow imformation, including floods and drought. Go http://water.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/dailyMainW?state=us&map_type=flood&web_type=map

118. Newton's Apple: Teacher's Guides live nearby. Although we describe floods as disasters, they are, in fact, natural phenomena. floods occur when a watershed receives http://www.ktca.org/newtons/12/floods.html

show #1207 Teacher's Guide Index How do people control the flooding of rivers? Do these methods of control sometimes make matters worse? David experiences the powerful force behind a flooding river. Segment length: 7:19 Contents Vocabulary Resources Main activity Try this It's hard to believe that a small, slow-running stream could cause harm. During a flood, however, even the calmest brook can become a torrent and cause unforeseen misery and damage. Many people like to live near a body of running fresh water. Rivers and streams provide recreation, food, and, of course, drinking water. But when rain or melting snow produces large amounts of water, rivers and streams may flood, causing problems for those who live nearby. Although we describe floods as disasters, they are, in fact, natural phenomena. Floods occur when a watershed receives so much water that its waterways cannot drain it off properly. A watershed is an area of land (usually quite large) that drains into a river or stream. A small river will drain several thousand or hundreds of thousands of acres of land. Within any one watershed, excess rain will cause increased water levels downstream. What occurs at any point along a river can affect not only that point but also the entire watershed.

119. Four Feared Dead In Czech Floods CNN http://cnn.com/2002/WEATHER/08/08/czech.floods.reut/index.html

120. Floods - Free Pictures - FreeFoto.Com Photographs of the floods that affected large areas of the Britain during early November 2000, which the Environment Agency said, were on the same scale as the http://www.freefoto.com/browse.jsp?id=35-00-0

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