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  2. 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.

  3. Flood management - Wikipedia

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    Flood management can include flood risk management, which focuses on measures to reduce risk, vulnerability and exposure to flood disasters and providing risk analysis through, for example, flood risk assessment. [1] Flood mitigation is a related but separate concept describing a broader set of strategies taken to reduce flood risk and ...

  4. 1996 Pacific Northwest floods - Wikipedia

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    $700–$800 million ($1.4 billion in 2021) [1] [2] The 1996 Pacific Northwest floods were a series of floods in Washington , Oregon , and the Idaho Panhandle in the United States. Large portions of the Columbia River and Puget Sound watersheds were impacted, including the Portland , Yakima , and the Palouse region.

  5. Willamette Valley flood of 1996 - Wikipedia

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    Significant flood damage also impacted the American states of Washington, Idaho (particularly the north of the state) and California. The floods were directly responsible for eight deaths in Oregon, as well as over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest. Three thousand residents were displaced from their homes. [1]

  6. Resilience (engineering and construction) - Wikipedia

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    A home in Gilchrist, Texas, designed to resist flood waters survived Hurricane Ike in 2008.. In the fields of engineering and construction, resilience is the ability to absorb or avoid damage without suffering complete failure and is an objective of design, maintenance and restoration for buildings and infrastructure, as well as communities.

  7. Flood insurance rate map - Wikipedia

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    The term 100-year flood indicates that the area has a one-percent chance of flooding in any given year, not that a flood will occur every 100 years. [ 2 ] Such maps are used in town planning , in the insurance industry, and by individuals who want to avoid moving into a home at risk of flooding or to know how to protect their property.

  8. National Flood Insurance Program - Wikipedia

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    Theoretically a 100-year flood has a 1 percent chance (1/100 = 0.01 or 1 percent) of occurring in any given year and a 500-year flood has as a 0.2 percent chance (1/500 = 0.002 or 0.2 percent) of occurring in any given year. [12] However, these expected flood elevations actually occur more or less often than expected. [13]

  9. Community resilience - Wikipedia

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    The plan should entail specific guidelines that will aid the community to rebuild both the economy and the ecosystem that the community thrives on. This typically means there are measures in place that a community will follow, such as the distribution of volunteers, and the access to knowledge and resources necessary to rebuild.