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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Internet Happenings, Events and Sources

Sunday, August 22, 2004

Floods

1) FEMA: Floods
http://www.fema.gov/hazards/floods/
2) FEMA for Kids: Floods
http://www.fema.gov/kids/floods.htm
3) USGS: Large Floods in the United States: Where They Happen and Why
http://www.usgs.gov/themes/flood.html
4) National Weather Service: Significant River Flood Outlook
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/nationalfloodoutlook/
5) NOAA: Flood Events
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Floods/
6) EarthSat: FloodThreat
http://www.earthsat.com/wx/flooding/floodthreat.html
7) Dartmouth Flood Observatory
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/
8) National Park Service: Johnstown Flood National Memorial
http://www.nps.gov/jofl/home.htm

First, FEMA discusses the devastating impacts floods can have on communities (1). Users can find great tips on the steps to take before, during, and after a flood. The second website, also created by FEMA, offers a more colorful, animated introduction to floods for children (2). Users can read a children's story about flooding, take a disaster math quiz, view astonishing flood photographs, and more. Next, the USGS supplies a pdf document of its nineteen-page report addressing the largest floods and flows within the United States (3). The website contains many colorful pictures, figures, and graphs to help people understand the affect climatology, topography, and basin size have on flow volumes. The fourth site, created by the National Weather Service, offers a general view of significant river flooding for the United States (4). By clicking on different locations on the map, users are connected to local forecast centers where they can find a variety of flood and weather related information. The next site, by NOAA, presents high-resolution, multi-channel color composite and single-channel grayscale imagery of flood events from all over the world (5). Users can search through the images by year and location. Next, EarthSat provides a color map of the continental United States indication by county how much rain is needed within a three hour period over the next twenty four hours to cause flooding (6). The website furnishes an additional map of the precipitation forecast for the maximum amounts expected in a three hour period. The seventh website features the Dartmouth Flood Observatory's role in detecting, mapping, measuring, and analyzing extreme flood events (7). This vast site offers archived data from 1985 to the present, a world atlas of flood hazards, and much more. Lastly, the National Park Service explains one of the worst disasters in the history of the United States, the Johnstown flood of 1889 (8). Users can learn the grave consequences dam failures can create by viewing images of the flood and reading the bibliographies and eye witness accounts.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/

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