(Martinez denies worrying about "flood," suggesting that a word like "fire" would be far more likely to raise hackles).
The lack of significant association of these flood categories with a predominant NAO mode during the immediately preceding 15 days, prior to the flood, suggest a time lag of 15 days before the peak.
Australia's foreign minister, Kevin Rudd, whose electorate in Brisbane has been badly hit by the floods, suggested Hislop's efforts be formally recognised.
Indeed, the response to the floods suggested to some that Western donors, by ignoring the floods, were working against their own vital interests in a region where 130,000 NATO troops are waging a deadly battle against a resurgent Taliban.
The tone of David Cameron's remarks on flooding suggested he would consider trying to oust Lord Smith when the current crisis had calmed.
The crisis provoked by this summer's floods suggests how far there is to go.
The location of the settlement on a river subject to regular flooding suggests that irrigation may have been practiced; the presence of bones of wild cattle, deer, and boar confirms the implication of the wall paintings that hunting was still widespread.
In addition, the observed downstream trend from bed scouring to deposition in the inner gorge for these floods and the opposite trend for low-magnitude floods suggest that these patterns are not directly controlled by downstream variations of transport capacity.
However, this does not apply in the current study, because all respondents have experienced several floods, suggesting that positive illusions can persist regardless of personal experience with the actual hazard.
The fact that the students did not ask questions about how to provide an early warning, but concentrated more on the history of floods, suggests that they had little knowledge of EWS.
