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  2. Heavy rains coming your way? Here's how to protect your home ...

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    FEMA recommends elevating your heat pumps, water meters and air conditioning condensers at least 1 foot above your flood elevation level to protect your equipment.

  3. Clark County Regional Flood Control District - Wikipedia

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    The Clark County Regional Flood Control District (CCRFCD) was created in 1985 by the Nevada Legislature allowing Clark County to provide broad solutions to flooding problems. The District has developed plans and so far successfully continued working on a 50-year program to eliminate most flooding from a 100-year flood in the populated areas for ...

  4. Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire - Wikipedia

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    A heavy gauge metal barrier protects Forest Road 263 and the canyon west of Montezuma, New Mexico, added as a method of flood and debris control following the fire. Workers from the city of Las Vegas, New Mexico dumping stone and earth to form a breaker to reinforce a bridge from potentially hazardous post-fire flooding of the Gallinas creek.

  5. Harris County Flood Control District - Wikipedia

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    The Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) is a government agency that was established to reduce the effects of flooding in Harris County, Texas, United States. The flood control district has its headquarters in Houston. [2] After destructive floods occurred in 1929 and 1935, residents of Harris County advocated for relief of flooding issues.

  6. Buying a house in a flood zone? Know the risks first - AOL

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    The property’s flood-zone status can affect its market value, even if the home has never actually suffered flood damage, and it may also take longer to find a buyer when you want to sell. Owning ...

  7. Rain or shine, fire or flood: Longtime proprietor of Las ...

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    Sep. 7—Longtime residents of Las Vegas, N.M., might remember Anselmo Valdez from his shop, Gambles Valdez Enterprises, where he spent nearly seven decades selling hardware, appliances and furniture.

  8. Flood insurance rate map - Wikipedia

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    FIRMs display areas that fall within the 100-year flood boundary. Areas that fall within the boundary are called special flood hazard areas (SFHAs) and they are further divided into insurance risk zones. 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 ...

  9. Mandatory evacuations ordered in Texas after heavy rain and ...

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    More than 7 inches of rain had fallen in parts of Harris County by 11 a.m. Thursday, the National Weather Service said. A flood watch was in effect for Houston until 7 p.m. Friday. A flood watch ...