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  2. Alabama community demands accountability for flood damage ...

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    At a recent church service in Cleveland, a group of visitors from a rural Alabama community nearly 900 miles away, including pastor and business owner Timothy Williams, joined congregants in ...

  3. Martin Dam - Wikipedia

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    Martin Dam is a concrete arch gravity dam on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama in the United States, about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Dadeville.Impounding the 40,000-acre (16,000 ha) Lake Martin, the dam was built in the 1920s to provide flood control, hydroelectric power generation and water supply.

  4. Climate change in Alabama - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, the United States Environmental Protection Agency released an assessment of the effect of climate change on Alabama, assessing various likely outcomes, noting that "[c]hanging the climate is likely to increase damages from tropical storms, reduce crop yields, harm livestock, increase the number of unpleasantly hot days, and increase the risk of heat stroke and other heat-related ...

  5. Category:Flood templates - Wikipedia

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    [[Category:Flood templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Flood templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.

  6. Emergency management - Wikipedia

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    Build a minimum of two feet to five above the 100 year flood level, or build to the 500 year flood height. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] In January 2005, 168 Governments adopted a 10-year plan to make the world safer from natural hazards at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, the results of which were adapted in a framework ...

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

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    Flood watches are in effect for around 8 million people across parts of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, the Weather Prediction Center said. The watches begin to expire Friday evening ...

  8. Deadly flash floods hit Alabama as U.N. warns of water ... - AOL

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    Flash flooding across much of Alabama late Wednesday into Thursday has left at least four people dead, stranded motorists and inundated homes and businesses after a weather front stalled out and ...

  9. Effects of Hurricane Katrina in the Southeastern United States

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    As a result of the flooding in Mobile, Alabama, a curfew from dusk to dawn was implemented. [106] Around a week after Katrina hit Alabama, FEMA approved $5.2 million into disaster aid to over 3,000 households in Alabama. Almost 550 truckloads with of supplies also arrived in Alabama from logistical centers across the southeast. [107]