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A line of thunderstorms moved through the southeastern U.S. this weekend with heavy rain and life-threatening flash flooding across the Ohio Valley and Appalachians and severe weather across the ...
The weather service's Wilmington office forecasts minor flooding from the Ohio River. The warning is in effect from Sunday morning to 2 a.m. on Tuesday. According to weather service data, the ...
A flood watch in effect until 11 a.m. followed by a heat advisory this afternoon and evening. The heat index in Columbus could reach 106.
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Floodplain restoration is the process of fully or partially restoring a river's floodplain to its original conditions before having been affected by the construction of levees (dikes) and the draining of wetlands and marshes.
The small village of Osborn, Ohio, which had little damage from the flood, was affected by the flood's aftermath. The village lay in the area designated to become part of the Huffman flood plain. The mainline tracks of the Erie Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, and the Ohio Electric Railway all ran through Osborn.
The peak flood level occurs as a very steep, short spike; a quick spurt of water. Anything that slows the surface runoff (marshes, meanders, vegetation, porous materials, turbulent flow, the river spreading over a floodplain) will slow some of the flow more than other parts, spreading the flow over time and blunting the spike. Even slightly ...
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