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  2. Flash flood guidance system - Wikipedia

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    The flash flood guidance approach to developing flash flood warnings rests on the real-time comparison of observed or forecast rainfall volume of a given duration and over a given catchment to a characteristic volume of rainfall for that duration and catchment that generates bank full flow conditions at the catchment outlet. If the observed or ...

  3. 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.

  4. Climate resilience - Wikipedia

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    Climate resilience is generally considered to be the ability to recover from, or to mitigate vulnerability to, climate-related shocks such as floods and droughts. [7] It is a political process that strengthens the ability of all to mitigate vulnerability to risks from, and adapt to changing patterns in, climate hazards and variability.

  5. 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.

  6. Template:Infobox flood/doc - Wikipedia

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  7. Severe weather terminology (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Flood statement FLS – A hydrological weather statement issued to provide updated information on ongoing flooding along major streams in which there is not a serious threat to life and/or property active or flood warnings to the public and emergency managers; information will be provided on observed (or if a dam is at risk of breaking, updates ...

  8. National Flood Insurance Program - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) defines the floodplain as the area that would be flooded by a base flood, [8] which is "the flood which has a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year". In this sense, a base flood is synonymous with a 100-year flood and a floodplain is synonymous with a special flood ...

  9. Urban resilience - Wikipedia

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    Academic discussion of urban resilience has focused primarily on three threats: climate change, natural disasters, and terrorism. [7] [8] Accordingly, resilience strategies have tended to be conceived of in terms of counter-terrorism, other disasters (earthquakes, wildfires, tsunamis, coastal flooding, solar flares, etc.), and infrastructure adoption of sustainable energy.