In fact, the same flood event is more severe, i.e. associated with increased runoff discharge and peak flow and decreased time to peak, if it occurs over a burnt area than that occurring over a land not affected by fire.
Further research on the same flood event in Bangladesh using a comparison group failed to detect any effect of floods on wasting 2 months after the floods.
13 In another study on the same floods, the levels of wasting had decreased considerably 4 months later.
For New York City (which suffered the same flooding during Superstorm Sandy in late October 2012 as the coast in nearby New Jersey, shown), floods due to either a storm surge of 1.15 meters (enough to overtop Manhattan's seawall) or a 1-day rainfall of 12 centimeters (4.7 inches) occurred, statistically, once every 245 years, the researchers found.
In the same way flood insurance shields families from the financial consequences of rebuilding in risky areas, the Stafford Act shields local and state governments from the full implications of their decisions on land use.
In the same state, flood-waters inundated a crocodile-breeding centre, allowing some of the reptiles to escape their cages (though they remained trapped in a nature reserve, according to officials).
Cut to three days before the movie's release and more comments in the same vein flooded the Internet streams.
On both sides of the river, levees crevassed from Cairo to the Gulf, and in the same thousand miles the flood destroyed every bridge.
But by comparison, more than 900 people died in the same period from seasonal floods in India and Bangladesh.
In the present study, we measured tree radial growth and wood production and analyzed stand dynamics (tree mortality and recruitment) in the same plots along a flooding gradient in the Araguaia floodplain over a period of 5 years.
