intense floods and increased flood risk. Natural types of floods include river flooding, groundwater flooding coastal flooding and urban flooding sometimes...
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A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution...
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Flood control (or flood mitigation, protection or alleviation) methods are used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters. Flooding...
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The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre-creation...
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Flood! is a 1976 American made-for-television adventure film directed by Earl Bellamy. A large freshwater lake above the small town of Brownsville, Oregon...
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The Zanclean flood or Zanclean deluge is theorized to have refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago. This flooding ended the Messinian salinity...
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A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe...
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Richard Flood (born 12 January 1982) is an Irish actor best known for the character Tommy McConnel in the series Crossing Lines, James McKay in the series...
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The Johnstown Flood, sometimes referred to locally as Great Flood of 1889, occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South...
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A ping flood is a simple denial-of-service attack where the attacker overwhelms the victim with ICMP "echo request" (ping) packets. This is most effective...
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Look up Flood, flood, or flooding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A flood is an overflow or accumulation of an expanse of water that submerges land...
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Floodplain (redirect from Flood plain)
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of...
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to flooding. Due to being part of such a basin and being less than 5 meters above mean sea level, Bangladesh faces the cumulative effects of floods due...
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The Missoula floods (also known as the Spokane floods, the Bretz floods, or Bretz's floods) were cataclysmic glacial lake outburst floods that swept periodically...
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The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster, was a disaster that occurred on Wednesday, January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood...
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A SYN flood is a form of denial-of-service attack on data communications in which an attacker rapidly initiates a connection to a server without finalizing...
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Curtis Charles Flood Sr. (January 18, 1938 – January 20, 1997) was an American professional baseball player and activist. He was a center fielder who...
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The Flood is a fictional parasitic alien lifeform and one of the primary antagonists in the Halo multimedia franchise. First introduced in the 2001 video...
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A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of...
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Texas Flood is the debut studio album by the American blues rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, released on June 13, 1983, by Epic Records...
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A flood basalt (or plateau basalt) is the result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions that covers large stretches of land or the ocean...
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The 1931 China floods, or the 1931 Yangtze–Huai River floods, occurred from June to August 1931 in China, hitting major cities such as Wuhan, Nanjing...
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A flood-meadow (or floodmeadow) is an area of grassland or pasture beside a river, subject to seasonal flooding. Flood-meadows are distinct from water-meadows...
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Noah (redirect from Flood (Bible))
extinction during the Flood. Afterwards, God made a covenant with Noah and promised never again to destroy Earth's with a flood. Noah is also portrayed...
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Flood alerts are issued by weather agencies to alert residents that flood conditions are a possibility. In the United States, a flash flood watch is issued...
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Kerala floods or Kerala flood may refer to: 1341 Floods in Kerala 2018 Kerala floods 2019 Kerala floods 2020 Kerala floods Great flood of 99 This disambiguation...
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Gujarat flood may refer to: 2005 Gujarat flood June 2015 Gujarat flood July 2015 Gujarat flood 2017 Gujarat flood This disambiguation page lists articles...
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Georgia Flood (born 1992) is an Australian film, television and theatre actress. After studying at the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq...
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Black Sea deluge hypothesis (redirect from Black Sea Flood)
best known of three hypothetical flood scenarios proposed for the Late Quaternary history of the Black Sea. One other flood scenario proposes a rapid, even...
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