The Year of the Flood

The Three Main Ingredients of Public Tragedy Jakarta, a special capital city of Indonesia in which complicating problems has always been a usual thing for the government and the locals. Traffic, flood and pollution has always been the number one problem for roughly 11 years in this city, causing the economy to slow down due to the hard road accessibility, and even souls. A lot of solution has been suggested in which some of them are currently being implemented to put this city away from the…

The four historical athletes I would put on my Mount Rushmore are Curt Flood, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, and . Curt Flood was a previous Major League Baseball (MLB) player who confronted the reserve clause issue. He made the Curt Flood Act as a way to ensure ball players received a livable wage. Society became outraged at the idea of major league players making more money when they already made so much. Curt Flood wanted to be a free agent to be able to stand up for the players, free of…

During a study in New York, people were affected by many floods that were cause by water drainage from Long Island into the Nissequogue River. Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York made the argument that "The cheapest way to deal with flood damage is to prevent it in the first place. Nearly one-thousand homes have been impacted by the recurring flooding of Nissequogue River and this restoration project is vital in ensuring this problem is put to an end," He made this point while he argued…

low-lying lands become awash in water from overflowed riverbanks, surges in from the sea or persistent precipitation [5]. The arguably most obvious immediate response would be to alter the surrounding landscape to reduce the potential for damaging floods. Actions such as the construction of dikes or levees to act as barriers against rising sea levels or rivers have been considered in some countries around Europe. From a cost-analysis point of view, a primary factor regarding the construction of…

However, build up of sedimentary soils do not take years to build up. Layers of sediment settle with the movement of water and, "the thickness of the sediment is dependent upon the size of the particles within the water" (fondriest.com). With this knowledge, it can be assessed that something like this would have happened during the great flood in Genesis. The massive amount of water that swept of the earth would have given plenty of time for particles…

and development (OECD) ranked this city among the top ten in the world who are exposed to the highest risk because of rising sea levels and predict that by 2070 as much as 2.9 million people and assets worth 2.1 billion dollars can be affected by floods caused by storms. Hurricane Sandy, which had devastating consequences, is one of the examples of global warming and the first warning of the dangers that can be expected in the future.…

Natural disasters are apart of our history as inhabitants of the earth. Throughout the thousands and thousands of years that man has inhabited earth, many things have changed and evolved; however, one thing that remains consistent is that no matter how far we look back in time, all generations have had to deal with disasters. Throughout the majority of this class, we have been studying responses to disasters and what their results came to be. Many times we try to create plans or have solutions…

4.0 CHENNAI FLOOD MITIGATION MEASURES The mitigation measures have to address flood avoidance, flood tolerance, and flood resistance in an integrated way. The measures that are implemented and the new measures to be developed are meant to control causative factors like uncontrolled urban sprawl, loss of natural drainage, the inadequacy of the storm water drainage system, lack of maintenance of existing systems, increase in impervious surfaces and lack of coordination between stakeholders…

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…

Freeman Wachholder Mrs. Scarbrough/Mr. Hunter Social Studies/Language Arts 16 December 2016 The Chicago Flood of 1992 April thirteenth, 1992. Busy, just like any other day in the Loop. But a series of highly unlikely mishaps would cause billions in damage that day. The events can be traced all the way back to 1899, when the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph company had permission to build tunnels for cables from city hall, but instead built seven-foot-wide railroad tunnels. These tunnels were…