Flood

damage for a longer period of time. That storm was Hurricane Mitch because it took people 20 years to fix all the roads, houses and other building with their furniture. However the big flood did soak every building and furniture it could be dried from heat or put it in the sun. The people who suffered from the flood could keep their furniture and get it dried however the people in the Hurricane had to get all knew things because mud was on it if they still had it or it was blown out to sea. The…

In chapter five of Acts of God, Ted Steinberg discusses a flood-prone area of Missouri that is located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers – St. Charles County. Steinberg begins the chapter by mentioning the Deerfield Village Mobile Home Park. The author states that Deerfield Village is on a low-lying piece of land and susceptible to flooding. Indeed, in 1933 the Mississippi River surged over a levee and submerged this mobile home park. Steinberg contends that magnitude of…

Breaking news, in Missoula Montana the ice dams ( An ice dam is a ridge of ice that forms at the edge of a glacier and prevents melting snow (water) from draining off) are breaking a flood has taken over cities and towns!! Lives are at risk .The flood waters (flood waters are water overflowing as the result of a flood) poured into Lake Columbia and made major spillways. Which those spillways created scablands. Scablands are flat elevated land deeply scarred by channels of glacial or…

Introduction Dams provide energy, water, and flood protection for communities, however as infrastructure ages the risk of dam failure increases (Bowels, 2007). The cost of large dam projects is increasing as climate change impacts the magnitude and duration of drought and storm events in California (Mann & Gleick, 2015). On February 7, 2017 Northern California Butte and Yuba County residents were forced to evacuate as the near failure of the Oroville Dam threatened downstream communities…

people and environment. Environment have a reaction on people. Some hurricanes have a impact on people. People have to ,move, find a new job,and that's hard for some people. Earthquakes involve the ground to shake. Floods could happen when it rains. You got . to stay on high ground. A flood is a over flow, such as rivers, lakes. A Hurricane is a huge storm, strong winds, it lasts for a week. Tsunami is a huge wave, in a body of water. There are different types of hurricanes.…

back down. It took about 30 hours from the time the water had taken over my house before it had gone back down again. I can say that I am very thankful that I was able to get myself, a few clothes, and my vehicle out before the flood hit. We had very little warning that floods were going to happen. The community watched as well as I did and made the extra precautions to keep myself safe. A risk that is not seen by a great amount of places is agriculture infestation. “Farming in Marshall County…

Outline: 1. Recognizing the problem: A recent flood has caused my employer to close its Iowa branch. The opportunity to take my dream job with a raise in pay and possible advancement has been presented. However, my spouse and children do not want to leave Iowa. All of our lifetime connections and family members are nearby. The recent flood has caused many hardships for our friends and neighbors. We feel a sense of obligation to help our friends and family. Also, my spouse feels a moral…

Should Dams be Removed? Dams in the United States play very important roles in controlling the waterways and for transportation purposes, but is the destruction of the rivers and surrounding land worth it? Many of these dams do more harm than good to the rivers, and hundreds of dams in the United States are no longer even in use. Not only are they damaging the rivers, but these unused dams are also no longer providing any benefits for rivers or for human use. These unused dams should be…

If a city wants to get bigger than it must expand in many ways such as houses, stores,parks,etc. Irrigation is one of the ways that an early city would need to improve on. Yuma was a great land of opportunity because it was in the desert and there was a lot of flat land and a good source of water. So farmers came to Yuma to try and grow there crops. Eventually there were at least 5000 people in Yuma but there were so many farmers it was harder to share and give water to one another.The canals…

Yuma. These floods were spoken about in the paragraph above but in a positive tone. These flood did indeed help with the rich soil however they were not helpful with the buildings that were in the town of Yuma. Flooding cause a lot of damage to important and not so important buildings. “Led to high costs for building head works and levees to hand the flows, or repair them after the floods subsided.” There is even a photo of people boating through what was Yuma’s main street but the flood waters…