What is a flood and how does it affect the environment?

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Last Answer : If I were still inside, that would be the worst.

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Description : Do you have flood insurance and how much do you pay for it?

Last Answer : answer:Here you go knock it out. Flood Insurance Website We have flood insurance and the closest water (a stream) is quarter of a mile away and 25 feet lower.

Description : Does Home Insurance cover the expense of living after home damage due to Flood?

Last Answer : answer:Regular home insurance does not cover flood from the outside at all. If you flood from your plumbing that is usually covered. If you have water damage from the wind breaking ... refer to flood insurance they specifically are talking about flooding from the outside unless otherwise specified.

Description : Brought to mind by the flood quesion, why would anyone cancel their flood insurance to save the $800 a year cost, incur $40,000 of damage from a flood, and then not get flood insurance?

Last Answer : answer:Maybe they’re hoping that lightening won’t strike twice? You should probably tell them the same statistics do not apply to flooding and living by a river.

Description : Do you think the story of The Great Flood probably has a factual basis in history?

Last Answer : Local floods, maybe, but certainly not a global one, because there is no evidence for it whatsoever.

Description : Could all this flood water in southern Alberta be shipped to areas that are in drought?

Last Answer : answer:Ha! Unfortunately, there are large swaths of the upper Midwest and Midwest in the U.S. (not just Alberta) that have far too much water and/or flooding even now. The Red River ( ... desert regions like Colorado/Utah/Arizona..but can you imagine how cost prohibitive it's construction would be?

Description : Why do hot countries flood?

Last Answer : Because their soil and infrastructure can’t handle rain when it comes. Either directly or from lands and mountqins that lie ‘upstream’.

Description : Anybody got any good flood jokes?

Last Answer : answer:A man was sitting on his front porch when it started to rain. The rain came down harder and harder and the man realized that it was a flood. So the flood waters were rising and when the water started ... t you take care of me? The Lord says, Well, I sent you two rowboats and a helicopter!

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Last Answer : Yes. It annoys me. In fact, I really do not much like people like that, and I generally like everybody.

Description : Why do most flash flood warnings never happen?

Last Answer : I’m not sure, but maybe it creates dangerous driving conditions? Maybe you just haven’t been able to see it from your home, but nearby streets might be getting inches deep water coverage, which is very dangerous to drive on.

Description : Flood the town, or flood the farms?

Last Answer : answer:Flood the House and Senate. Let's see how they would react to a disaster of that magnitude. No one who has not been through a disaster knows the great impact that it has on people, ... That's the best answer I can give because the two options were both fairly horrible for all involved.

Description : Have you ever been through a major flood and how would you feel about reliving that event?

Last Answer : Floods are pretty regular events in my neck of the woods and sand bagging with the scouts is something we do almost every year. Just do what ya gotta do and put things up on blocks and hope the power doesn’t go off during the ordeal on top of everything else that happens.

Description : Is the record breaking rain and flooding in Pakistan the result of a) Allah's will, b) global warming, c) weather warfare, or d) plain old bad monsoon/100-year flood?

Last Answer : kevbo I prefer to go with; Shit happens. ;-)

Description : How can the United States be $19 billion dollars in debt in the National Flood Program?

Last Answer : Source, please.

Description : Why have National Flood Insurance, when FEMA is paying for everything?

Last Answer : answer:Are they in fact providing “full benefits”? Where’s your source, john?

Description : How would you react if you came back home and everything you cherished had been destroyed by flood water?

Last Answer : I’d be devastated at first but eventually I’d remind myself that those things I lost were simply objects that can be replaced over time. The most important thing to me is my fiancé and my family. As long as they were all ok, I’d have hope.