Back down the valley in Johnstown itself, the modest flood museum is worth a visit for the somber black and white Academy Award-winning documentary "The Johnstown Flood," directed by Charles Guggenheim.
Government cuts meant hundreds of relatively modest flood defence schemes being cancelled, including one that could have prevented the recent flooding of Leeds city centre.
The hurricane may have already rolled through New York City with little fanfare, but with transit down and some modest flooding in the Zone A areas, there may still be one or two attractive women currently without a fun place to stay.
Thus, modest flooding of the entire brain with lactate by raising the blood level makes a small contribution to neuroenergetics, slightly supplementing glucose as the predominant fuel.
This high profile event may be qualitatively different in character from the many more modest floods that were analysed in our England and Wales study.
"The United States, along with other nations, has made a modest contribution to flood assistance," a senior State Department official said on the condition of anonymity in mid-September, after Washington's decision to grant $900,000 in flood relief for the North.
The volunteer headquarters started as a modest Facebook group, Cumbria flood volunteers, at the weekend, quickly attracting more than 15,000 members as appeals spread across the county.
Like other well-intentioned steps to fight corruption, they will make it a little bit harder to shift money around anonymously, but ultimately will be only a modest impediment to stanching the flood of illicit funds that course through the economy.
Though they had originally intended to raise a modest sum, the partners received a flood of contributions, eventually totaling $200,000, from about 6,000 donors.
Here is a lovely cove to enjoy lunch – and, off the point's rocky outcrop, an eddy-line that forms on the flooding tide, producing a modest set of standing waves and wave train, making for a great play spot before you head back across the estuary.
