Flood and National Weather Service

On October 15, 2015 the Mojave and Tehachapi Area was hit with a storm that triggered a major mudslide on State Route 58. This mudslide left motorists stranded on the roadway for hours and State Route 58 completely inoperable to motorists.

For instance, around 500 people were violently drowned to death by the rapid waters rising into homes and communities. Many people lost friends, and loved ones to this flood. Many tragically lost their homes and jobs too. Homes were destroyed, jobs were taken down, and people became devastated and depressed. A lot of people were able to go live will relatives, or friends, but a majority of them had nowhere to go.

Whilst the entire Blue Mountains community was impacted by this natural disaster, which attracted media exposure on a global scale, residents around the Springwood area were hardest hit extending from Falconbridge through to Mt Riverview.

History will affirm that from the beginning of the settlement of New Orleans in 1717, it was then and continues to be a location destined to periodic flooding caused by the Mississippi river and rising storms. Throughout time, New Orleans would challenge nature by primarily fortifying the river’s natural levees to periodically engineering levees to combat issues of flooding, only to return to reinforcing or rebuilding according to damages inflicted as time progressed. Each attempt to fight nature from overwhelming New Orleans kept setting engineers back. Refusal to abandon the coastal areas became more costly over time; the intent to preserve the coast became more valuable than the value of life and property.

I was talking with a co-worker this evening about my assignments for the week in my online classes. When I told her we were studying the intermontane west; she told me about a place in eastern Washington State called the scablands. I had never heard the term before, so naturally I was intrigued. Luckily for me the topic was covered in our book when discussing the Great Missoula Flood. The Great Missoula Flood was caused over a period of time during the last ice age when a massive dam buckled under the weight of the water that melted from the polar ice caps (Hardwick, Shelley & Holtgrieve.) The scablands are only a portion of the total area that is encompassed in the area affected by the Great Missoula Flood. According to HugeFloods.com “The

In May of 2015, a slow moving storm producing record amounts of rainfall and tornados caused flash floods across Texas and Oklahoma causing mass destruction and many causalities. Flooding in Texas and Oklahoma does not happen often in most areas. Some areas have not seen rainfall totals like what was seen in May for more than 50 years. The flooding in May of 2015 was the most widespread and record breaking. In some areas houses were ripped from their foundations. In Wimberley, Texas, a family was still in the house as it washed away, killing a mother and her two children. Trees were uprooted as well as lakes, rivers and creeks overflowed their banks. Streets and interstates were shut down because of the flooding. A tornado, touching down

The water crisis left thousands of citizens without fresh, clean water for months. Furthermore, there have been many health problems

Texas has received record amounts of rainfall, causing serious flooding all throughout the state of Texas. According to an article published on June 3rd, Houston is looking at an economic impact of roughly 550 million dollars. This interests me greatly because I live in Texas, and seeing prices going up, especially on local produces, is something that will directly impact me. Because of the record rain falls, local farmers are especially in a world of hurt as their crops were destroyed by the rain. For local farmers markets, and local grocery stores that support local farmers, I think you'll start to see a raise in prices as the farmers will be having to make up their margins somewhere. Also, I think you'll start to see Texas lean on other

In the Washington DC area, it is not at all uncommon to see flash flood warnings scroll across the television screen, but nothing comes of it other than some rain. This past weekend, however, during Memorial Day weekend, Ellicott City, Maryland, which sits just outside of the beltway, experienced a horrible flash flood. The death toll still has yet to be announced, as cleanup and the search for survivors has just begun. Two waves of intense flooding hit the town unexpectedly, and with little warning. The town is a quaint little area with cute shops and storefronts, which sits in a valley, and the main street cuts a swath between two higher vistas. Several storms had been forecast earlier that day, and heavy rain was expected, but no one could have predicted such devastation, in such a short amount of time. This is the second massive flash flood to hit this area in as many years, leaving business owners, and residents alike, stunned and heartbroken.

The hydrographic basin area affected is around 435 miles in width and 723 miles in length which totals close to 320,000 square miles. The flood area was 30,000 square miles. In St. Louis, the floodwall built out of interlocking concrete blocks in the 1960’s, kept the flood out. If the flood had been 2 feet higher, the whole downtown area of St. Louis would have been under water. It is estimated that most of the 700 privately built levees failed or were destroyed on the Missouri River. River levels were almost 20 feet over flood stage. The Missouri River was flooded for nearly 100 days. (Wikipedia)

The Community of South Amboy appears to be supported of future mitigation efforts, in order to reduce flooding in the area; however, they don’t know who to contact in order to assist with the mitigation efforts The community of South Amboy could benefit from reducing the floods in the area, because insurance premiums will decrease, business and job opportunities will increase in the city of South Amboy. The lack of knowledge an organization could be a major roadblock for the community of South Amboy; however, the city’s emergency manager can assist in educating and organizing the community in order to create and implement mitigation plans in the

One thing that opened my eyes about this situation is that the people in Louisiana were going through their everyday lives working and going to school as if it was another rainy day until they noticed their front yards starting to turn into huge puddles of water. Some people tried to stay and protect their homes but it was nothing they could do. 20 people were recorded dead not counting the people who drowned trying to help others. Even as it was going on, it was declared a state of emergency. But again, I still don't see people on the news talking about getting these people help so that they can get their life back on track the government can only do so much .

A flood can be defined in many depths but is simply water where it isn’t wanted. In late 2010 Queensland was affected by major flash flooding this continued on into the beginning of 2011 and ¾ of Queensland was declared a disaster zone.

The purpose of this report is to geologically evaluate the potential hazards for flooding in Hazard City. This report will include a detailed historic and extrapolated Stream Gauge Data Worksheet, as well as a graph of the Discharge Frequency Curve expected on Clearwater River. The report will provide Hazard city with my scientific analysis, conclusions, and provide recommendations concerning potential flood damages.

Attention-Getter: Can you imagine how much damage 6,900,000,000,000 (6.9 trillion) gallons of rain in one week can cause? According to Holly Yan, this much water is enough to fill more than 10.4 million Olympic-size swimming pools. Well, this is the amount of rain that bashed Louisiana between August 8 and August 14 (Yan, 2016).