Although deep snow alone seldom causes floods,when it occurs together with heavy rain and sudden warmer weather,it can lead to serious flooding.If there is a fast snow melt (融化)on top of frozen or very wet ground,flooding is likely to occur.Melting snow also causes high water levels in...
Storm surge is an extremely dangerous form of flooding. It can flood large coastal areas at the same time. It can also cause flooding very quickly. Extreme flooding occurs when storm surge happens at the same time as high tide. This can cause storm tides to reach over 2o feet!
When this happens, a large amount of water flows out onto the land in a short period of time. Broken levees can cause some of the most dangerous flood conditions. Breakwater walls in Maryland, built to slow beach erosion. Photo courtesy NOAA Coastal Flooding People have yet to have much...
High tide occurs when water covers much of the shore after rising to its highest level. Low tide is when the water retreats to its lowest level, moving away from the shore. What happens during high tide? During high tide, the ocean’s waters creep up the shore, deepening the wa...
Heap overflows:A form of buffer overflow that happens when a chunk of memory is allocated to the heap and data is written to this memory without any bound checking being done on the data. Stack overflows:A type of buffer overflow that causes a program to write more data to a buffer loc...
Then, flooding. Coastal flooding happens when winds from a storm push water from the ocean onto land. A flash flood is caused by dam breaks or heavy rain. Urban flooding specifically occurs when rainfall damages the lo...
Professional negligence occurs when a professional (lawyer, insurance broker, accountant, architect, realtor, financial advisor, etc.) fails to fulfill their professional duties or obligations that they were hired by their clients to fulfill. Understanding the key elements of professional negligence — ...
STS scholars explore why technological change happens and what role economic, political and societal actors play in it. They use the term transitions when referring to system change. STSs are seen to consist of macro, meso and micro levels. The macro-level refers to the economic, physical and...
Lightning can strike during a snowstorm when the charge needs to be equalized, just like in a summer thunderstorm. These conditions don’t happen often in winter, which makes thundersnow rare. And since snow dampens sound, thunder may be hard to hear even when it happens. What is a frost...
WhatHappensDuringaTsunami? Tsunamis(海啸)arelargeandpowerfuloceanwavesthatgrowinsizeastheyreachtheshore.Theycancausemajordamageastheyrushinlandfloodingcitiesanddestroyinghomes. Tsunamisarecausedbyalargedisplacementofwater.Thinkofwhenyouaresittinginthebathtubandyoumoveforwardinthetub.ThiscancausearelativelylargewaveTh...