Flood: Tide, River, Lake, Old English, Deluge Myth, Mythology, Deity, Civilization, Divine Retribution, Culture, Flood Control, List of Deadliest Floods, Emergency Management, Flood Risk Assessment - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 6130687710 ISBN 13: 9786130687717

Verlag: Alphascript Publishing, 2010

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.A flood is an overflow or accumulation of an expanse of water that submerges land. In the sense of flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Flooding may result from the volume of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, which overflows or breaks levees, with the result that some of the water escapes its normal boundaries. While the size of a lake or other body of water will vary with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt, it is not a significant flood unless such escapes of water endanger land areas used by man like a village, city or other inhabited area. Floods can also occur in rivers, when the strength of the river is so high it flows out of the river channel, particularly at bends or meanders and causes damage to homes and businesses along such rivers. While flood damage can be virtually eliminated by moving away from rivers and other bodies of water, since time out of mind, people have lived and worked by the water to seek sustenance and capitalize on the gains of cheap and easy travel and commerce by being near water."

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 6130687710
• ISBN 13: 9786130687717
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Herausgeber: Miller Frederic P., Vandome Agnes F., McBrewster John