A flash flood is more than a quick nuisance; it can be a powerful wall of water that can damage bridges, sweep away cars, rip out trees, and cause widespread damage. That’s why it’s important to prepare for a flash flood before it happens and know what to do when it does....
Flood safety: what have historic flash floods taught us?
CHENGDU, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers braving heavy rain to search for more than 30 people, who lost contact after flash floods struck a village in southwest China's Sichuan Province at around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, have found and brought four people to safety. The rescue headquarters said ...
"India stands with Uttarakhand and the nation prays for everyone's safety there," he wrote on Twitter. A video posted on social media showed the floodwater streaming through the area and causing widespread damage. "It came very fast, there was no time to alert anyone," Sanjay Singh...
"We were concerned that we might be stuck up here, but smart enough to know that you can't outrun a flood," he said. People who live in the canyon are now bracing for more destruction. "So the weather forecast does concern us. Today's forecast is very much like yesterday...
–It was a Frisbee-like device to the rescue on Monday in San Diego when a man was pulled out of a swiftly moving river swollen by floodwater. "One of dozens of rescues SDFD firefighters & lifeguards performed today," the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department posted on social media. "This ...
Constitution, but also a record year of flood deaths in Texas, and significant flood damage and deaths in many parts of the country. Thus, the timing seems right for a new approach to personal flood safety, based on the five main principles in the preamble of the U.S. Constitution: 1....
SEE ALSO:Deadly Maryland flood part of clear global warming-related pattern in extreme rainfall events Barnes had already seen his own Main Street business flooded with water, theWashington Postreports. The woman in the car was unwilling to leave the vehicle to get into the fast-moving water un...
A predominant nineteenth- century theory holding that the geological features of the natural world could be attributed to sudden and massive cataclysms such as Noah's flood - agreed with the 7 days of creation from God Based on Darwins observations, what are the two line of thought he created...
The flash flood susceptibility assessment is the basis of flash flood risk assessment and is also an important step in flash flood disaster management. Based on Citespace analysis tools, this study made a bibliometric and visualized analysis of 305 documents collected in the core collection of Web...