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Old 12-23-2011, 12:55 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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We can prevent people from living in flood plains, but unforunately there is usually at least one idiot that attempts to cross a fast moving creek and either drowns or ends up putting the lives of rescue workers in danger.

Growing up near the Pedernales River, I have witness the power of flash floods many times on this river...literally several progressions of walls of water each one building the river higher...quickly!

While we may not experience hurricane flooding, the resulting downpours directly related to that tropical system produce massive rainfall amounts in central Texas. Thrall, TX in Williamson county received 40 inches of rain from a hurricane in 1921...
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/txhur.pdf

Lake Travis rose 57 feet in 14 hours in 1952...
The history of LCRA
(see righthand side of page..."timeline")
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Old 02-29-2012, 06:07 PM
 
Location: NEW JERSEY, NYC LONG ISLAND, CONNECTICUT
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we should do something to minimize fire accidents as well as floods.Even though flood is a ntural calamity,we can do something by planting trees etc.


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