The Queensland Floods of 2010-2011

Location: Tropical cyclones occur in the northern part of Australia, around the periphery, or in the tropics. The areas most affected by tropical cyclones are Queensland and Western Australia, with New South Wales being one of the states rarely affected. The season for tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere is from November to April.

As I was reading as The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, I was shocked!The closest relation that I could possibly think of that I have seen is the rainfall flood of 2008 in Saline County, Illinois. I remember going outside and wading in water, it was almost impossible to drive and buildings were flooded majorly. “Excess of 12 inches above normal.” (Flood of 2008) When I walked outside, I could not believe my eyes! I didn’t even think it was possible for Carrier Mills to get as much rain as it had

The flood of 1997 started with a wetter the normal fall then ground froze early that year which made it easier to freeze all the liquid. When all the snow melted the water was released onto the surface and it made it easy for the flood to happen. When the climate changed is when all the flooding occurred. After the red river along the north dakota and minnesota was flooded it started to flood more often and continue to happen. The flooding of 1997 wrecked houses and old buildings it made it hard to drive and to get from here to there. The pastures were wrecked making it hard for animals to get around because all of the mucky fields which was making the animals sick.

The tendency towards more intense precipitation events is projected to the future. The more precipitation, the more risk of flooding.More heavy downpours may increase the likelihood of property damage, travel delays and disruption in

In coastal flooding the coastal areas are flooded due to storm activity at sea. The waves break through coastal defenses and submerge the area.

The floods were caused by heavy rain from a tropical cyclone named cyclone Tasha that joined with a La Niña event* caused an overflow of water in rivers and lakes. The La Niña in 2010 was the strongest La Niña since 1973.This caused a lot of rainfall across Queensland. That December was the wettest on record and 107 places had their highest rainfalls ever. 2010 was also recorded as the states most wet spring since the 1900’s and Australia's third wettest year. Floods started across the state in December. On the 28th December a monsoonal trough crossed the coast from the Coral Sea, bringing heavy rain from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Gold Coast, overfilling a dam in Towoomba, causing it to malfunction and release the water.

2. The Queensland floods were part of the La Niña change that was predicted to happen during the season. La Niña is a change in air pressure across the central and eastern tropical Pacific resulting in warmer sea surface temperatures in the north of Australia. Historically, La Niña changes have bought large scale floods and increased risks of tropical cyclones. As expected, this particular La Niña change caused widespread heavy rain in the central and eastern Pacific affecting the North-East of Australia. The first sign of having a devastating flood period was the abnormally heavy rains during the winter dry season leading into September 2010 which was the wettest September on record. Following this, there was 7 months that were wetter than

During the Autumn/Winter of 2013/14, an unusually high frequency of depressions moved across the Somerset Levels, causing both fluvial and pluvial flooding on a prodigious scale. The two main rivers which flow through the Levels (River Tone/Parrett), burst their banks, spilling into the already heavily saturated flood plain. An emergency was declared and subsequently allowed the Somerset council to request financial and physical aid to the region. This essay highlights the key reasons the Somerset Levels flooded, as well evaluating the main management solutions that were put forward during the peak of the flooding.

Climate change was blamed for risen in temperature by half a degree, producing more vapor which results in heavy rainfall in 2010 in Brisbane. The Burnett River and Fitzroy River were exceedingly bad hit on 28th and 29th December 2010, when the stream level rose to more than eighteen meters. Author was discussed that flooding proceeded into January 2011, turning out to be more terrible in Brisbane and damages came around 2.38 billion AUS dollars. Flood again hit the area in 2013 (Davies 2013).

The first reason that contributes to the river flooding so often is the ice melting in the spring. The Red River flows northward, and when the ice thaws, it also runs northward along the valley, causing runoff from the southern portions of the river. When the ice, river water, and runoff all join together in the

Carlisle was among the worst hit communities with 1,930 properties affected while in Kendal, 2,140 were flooded as the flood alleviation scheme that was built during the 1970s was overwhelmed20. The December storms also resulted in flood defences being overtopped in other communities in the north-west, including Appleby and

Flooding happens all the time in Iowa, which is where I live. A flood is an overflowing amount of water, beyond its normal level, and over dry land mostly. The Central China Floods included a lot of background information and details common to floods and caused damage and destruction to property and lives that effected the region.

These floods were nothing new to Queensland; previously in 1893 and 1974, Brisbane withstood major flooding due to the collapsing of the Brisbane river bank. Tropical Cyclone Tasha exacerbated the Queensland floods due to the heavy rainfall. The La Niña Modoki event also contributed to continued heavy rainfall along North Western Australia over Queensland’s river catchments. 2010 brought

Given Malaysia's geographical location, most floods that occur are a natural result of cyclical monsoons during the local tropical wet season that are characterised by heavy and regular rainfall from roughly October to March. Inadequate drainage in many urban areas also enhance the effects of heavy rain, though efforts are underway to resolve this. Floods are regular natural disasters in Malaysia which happen nearly every year during the monsoon season the latest serious hit was in the east coast during end of 2014 and early 2015.With up to 200,000 peoples affected and 21 killed, it was described as the worst flood in decades. It also took more than a year for flood victims in certain states to recover and return to their normal lives. The geographical location of Malaysia makes it experience two monsoon seasons, the Southwest Monsoon and Northeast Monsoon. The monsoons bring more rain resulting in regular floods every year. Although flash flood only happens for a short amount of time, the damage done is very significant, there have already been three events of flash flood within the month. It happened in Klang, Shah Alam, and Teluk Bahang.

They are more deadly than ordinary floods because they intensify the moment the dams and embankments experience failures and breaches respectively (Singh and Kumar (2013); Singh and Kumar, 2017). The high discharge of water from rivers can cause extensive damage to life and property (Singh & Kumar, 2017), both of which include livestock, croplands and public utilities (i.e. electricity, telephones, and roads) (Singh & Kumar, 2013). For instance, a lot of agricultural land was rendered uncultivable because the flood had transported and deposited excess sediment (Chakraborty et al., 2010).