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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Writer: Linber LewisSchool: President’s College‚ GuyanaIf one asks the question‚ what can floods do?‚ then the following may seem like fitting answers. During the summer monsoon season‚ heavy rains cause destructive floods in Southeast Asia. In China‚ the floods of the Huang He River have been so frequent and devastating that the river is called Chinas Sorrow. Likewise in the US‚ record spring and summer rains in 1993 caused the Mississippi Rover to overflow its banks‚ flooding farms and towns from
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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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Mariah Wolford History 202 “The Johnstown Flood” Johnstown Flood Having taken classes about Pennsylvania history in high school and being familiar with this horrible flood‚ I was very happy with this book. The author‚ David McCullough‚ does a masterful job setting the scene‚ the politics surrounding the dam and the subsequent failure of that dam. Johnstown was a typical American town for that day and time. People worked hard and earned little. The environment was polluted to some extent‚
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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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The Flood I sat in class‚ the music blaring in my ears. It was very noisy in the classroom‚ the music was turned up as loud as it could be‚ there was multiple conversations going on in the background. Sophie and I were sitting on the cold floor of the health room. Burgie sat directly above me on a mat watching a video on how to make yogurt out of only a coconut. Coach Wood was sitting at her desk‚ she was telling us a story about her son Shep. Just then like a volcano erupting it began. The rain
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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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