Johnstown Flood

Hermine weakened while crossing from Florida into Georgia, but still produced sustained winds of 45 mph (72 km/h) at Savannah, with gusts to 58 mph (93 km/h).[77] Farther northeast, Folly Island, South Carolina, reported sustained winds of 44 mph (71 km/h) with gusts to 59 mph (95 km/h),[78] and the pier in Duck, North Carolina, reported sustained winds of 58 mph (93 km/h) with gusts to 73 mph (117 km/h).[79] Heavy rainfall occurred through the Carolinas, reaching 10.72 in (272 mm) in Murrells Inlet

each other. When rain decides to come to Yuma the water builds. This causes the Colorado River to flood. But because of the large amount of packed sand everything floods. The flood water rages through the town and wipes everything completely out. This happened time and time again until someone thought, let’s make a change. But what was that change? Irrigation. What is irrigation?

Introduction On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and 100-foot high tsunami hit the northeastern shoreline of Japan. At least 28,000 people were killed or went missing and more than 400,000 homes and buildings were destroyed. Recovery and rescue efforts were difficult as a result of the cold weather and because of disrupted transportation routes. Making matters worse, the waves of the tsunami damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant, causing radioactive leaks. in addition to devastating

Two-Layer Floodgate Can an increase of layers on a floodgate improve the performance of the floodgate? If a second layer of popsicle sticks is added to a model floodgate made out of popsicle sticks, then the two-layer floodgate will be able to block more water. The control variables for this experiment include where both tests were conducted (bathtub), the materials used for each floodgate (same brand of popsicle sticks), the 20x6.x8.5 floral foam blocks on each side of the bathtub, the location

“Sandy was 14 feet above sea level.” And says “There are 500-plus entrances into the subway station on the very tip of lower Manhattan alone, if you miss three of four of them, the water gets in.” Also the city has proposed what it calls an integrated flood-wall system, instead of building a high wall that would obstruct the views, the land running back from the water’s edge would be raised. I have interviewed Qian Mei Chen who is my mother and who also experienced what happened during the storm

coastal defenses and submerge the area. What can you expect from flooding. Loss of life and damage to both buildings and other structures. Floods can also damage power systems which then cause the effected area to be without power. With the loss of power, water treatment plants are also effected. This could cause loss of water or even contamination. Floods can also damage roadways which would make it hard to get aid to the effected areas. South Florida is a major tourist location. Flooding can

Hurricanes in movies, such as The Day After Tomorrow, are city destroying monsters that make nightmares come true. While this may be an extreme exaggeration of superstorms, New York has suffered from the destructive force of said superstorms. Three years ago, Hurricane Sandy swept into New York leaving only devastation in its wake. Sandy, while not nearly as devastating as some hurricanes, was the biggest seen since hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Whilst Sandy is still called a hurricane, it is actually

climate change such as drought, flood, and cyclone, the environment such as pollution, deforestation, desertification, pest infestation or combinations of these, or the destroy of ozone layer will contribute to the green house effect. People's homes are wiped out and livelihoods are destroyed. Poverty, population pressures and environmental degradation mean that increasing numbers of people are vulnerable to natural disasters. In Australia, natural disasters such as floods, bush-fires and tropical cyclones

of its land lies less than one meter above sea level (Molenaar) This makes the Netherlands out of all the countries in the world the land with the most land below sea-level. The Netherlands currently has more than seventeen thousand kilometers of flood defenses (Molenaar) Dikes were the foundation of the Netherlands because they made the Netherlands grow, well-known, and made them a pro at building them, but the dikes also wounded the Netherlands. There have not always been dikes in the Netherlands

Floods are the most costly and damaging natural disaster in the world (Berz, 2000). The determination of streamflow (stage or discharge) at a river station plays an important role in environmental and water resources management. Flood routing, a basis for flood forecasting, is the process of determining progressively the timing and shape of a flood wave at successive points along a river reach. Approaches for flood routing have been based either on hydraulic (process approach) or hydrologic (conceptual