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  2. Flood management - Wikipedia

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    The map to the right shows a flood map for the City of York, including the floodplain for a 1 in 100-year flood (dark blue), the predicted floodplain for a 1 in 1000 year flood (light blue) and low-lying areas in need of flood defence (purple). The most sustainable way of reducing risk is to prevent further development in flood-prone areas and ...

  3. National Flood Insurance Program - Wikipedia

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    The NFIP is managed and administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA). [2] The program is designed to provide an insurance alternative to disaster assistance to meet the escalating costs of repairing damage to buildings and their contents caused by floods. [3]

  4. Particularly dangerous situation - Wikipedia

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    This is a FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY for Catawba River from Lake James to Lake Rhodhiss. This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW! HAZARD...Life-threatening flash flooding from historic rainfall and resultant dam floodgate releases. SOURCE...Duke Energy and Burke County Emergency Management.

  5. Francine’s heavy rainfall forces dramatic water rescues as ...

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    Francine is spreading dangerous conditions across the South Thursday after it slammed into Louisiana with extreme rainfall, life-threatening flooding and destructive winds.

  6. Major flood protection project in Tampa is incomplete as city ...

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    Cascio said Tampa also has several other multiyear flood-relief projects in the works and is in the process of developing a new watershed management plan that will examine each basin and help ...

  7. Hurricane Francine tracker: Path, rainfall, flood risk and more

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    At 5 p.m. CDT, the National Hurricane Center reported that Francine had made landfall in the Parish of Terrebonne, roughly 30 miles south-southwest of Morgan City. The maximum sustained wind speed ...

  8. Flash flood warning - Wikipedia

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    On August 27, 2017, as Hurricane Harvey brought torrential rain to southeast Texas, the NWS issued a "Flash Flood Emergency for Catastrophic Life Threatening Flooding." [6] On September 10, 2017, the NWS issued a Flash Flood Emergency for life-threatening storm surge because of Hurricane Irma in southwestern Florida at the eye landfall. [7] [8]

  9. Hurricane evacuation - Wikipedia

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    The signage below suggests tuning to WWL Radio or sister station WLMG for emergency information. Hurricane evacuation route marking near the Texas Gulf Coast. A hurricane evacuation route (also called coastal evacuation route or evacuation route) is a highway in the United States that is a specified route for hurricane evacuation.