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2. Sandbags available in case Beryl's heavy rain turns into ...

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   The area can expect light to moderate rain Tuesday afternoon and evening, Van Meter said. The heaviest downpours should come between midnight and 9 or 10 a.m. Wednesday, then turn to light rain ...

3. Pamela to unleash excessive rain, flash flooding in Texas - AOL

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   Excessive rainfall and flash flooding are predicted in portions of central Texas after Pamela arrives as a tropical rainstorm this week. The system's interaction with a non-tropical system will ...

4. How Cities Are Using Nature-Based Solutions to Tackle Floods

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   Climate change is already making extreme flooding more frequent and intense and by 2050 100-year flood events are projected to occur at least twice as frequently as today across 40% of the planet.

5. Retention basin - Wikipedia

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   Storm water is typically channeled to a retention basin through a system of street and/or parking lot storm drains, and a network of drain channels or underground pipes.. The basins are designed to allow relatively large flows of water to enter, but discharges to receiving waters are limited by outlet structures that function only during very large storm eve

6. Effects of Hurricane Harvey in Texas - Wikipedia

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   The slow movement of Harvey over Texas allowed the storm to drop prolonged heavy rains on the state, as has also happened with earlier storms. [134] Harvey's stalled position was due to weak prevailing winds linked to a greatly expanded subtropical high pressure system over much of the US at the time, which had pushed the jet stream to the north.

7. Sandbag - Wikipedia

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   Properly stacked sandbags [2] are an effective deterrent against damaging flood waters. Sandbags can be used to build levees, barricades, dikes and berms to limit erosion from flooding. Sandbags can also be used to fortify existing flood control structures and limit the effects of sand boils. Sandbag structures do not prevent water seepage and ...

8. UPDATE: Port Huron setting up sandbag station at 5 p.m. for ...

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   The city of Port Huron is making bulk sand and sandbags available for residents impacted by floods off the Black River, as local authorities continue to monitor an ice jam making its way south ...

9. Flood threat increasing as tropical showers soak Texas, Gulf ...

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   Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday he activated emergency resources ahead of the weekend flood threat and urged residents to monitor the weather, make an emergency plan and heed the guidance of ...