Powerful Floods Are Wrecking Businesses.
The following year, in June 2006, an equally powerful flood refilled the crawl space with silt.
In the summer of 1954 another powerful flood occurred, again the result of continued monsoon rains.
These threats may be powerful – floods in the Philippines, earthquakes in Haiti – but they aren't deliberate.
Many restaurant employees once lived in the Lower Ninth Ward, where powerful floods reduced frame houses to kindling and scattered the workers to the winds.
Thousands of victims in the poor, unstable state were already in camps for the displaced, including one in Kalay, Sagaing region, where residents described powerful flood waters swamping homes within hours.
The world, then, may have no way to avoid the most devastating consequences of global warming, including rising sea levels, extreme droughts and food shortages, and more powerful floods and storms.
But, in regions where the rock has built-in weaknesses, such as Iceland's heavily jointed basalt, canyon formation can happen in sudden bursts: Powerful floods can swiftly create canyons by plucking out giant blocks and casting them downstream.
"The conditions that enable powerful floods in the Lower Danube," the researchers argue, "also tend to generate major floods in other rivers to the north of the Danube that flow through what was, in the 4th century, the heart of Gothic territory". But is there any evidence of this flooding in the past?
