Flooding may result from the volume of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, which overflows or breaks levees, with the result that some of the water escapes its usual boundaries, or may be due to accumulation of rainwater on saturated ground in an areal flood.

Flooding may result from the volume of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, which overflows or breaks levees, with the result that some of the water escapes its usual boundaries.

Flooding in 2011 drove the Mississippi River to crest at 61. 9 ft on May 19, the highest recorded height of the river since the 1930s.

Flooding of the river flats is a possibility throughout the year due to ice jams, excessive snow melt, large volume storms and hurricane or tropical storm remnants

Flooding at Callis Bridge is so frequent that the level of the River Calder has been lowered and special perforated kerbstones fitted so that water can drain back into the river.

Flooding caused by damming of the river has provoked bitter disputes with First Nations in the past although the Northern Flood Agreement was created in the 1970s to help offset the damages caused by flooding.

Flooding threatened travelers along the river, and the presence of a dragon was blamed.

Flooding is also an issue in the river bank areas where houses were built.

Flooding is common on this section of the river, especially near Wheatland to the border.

Flooding along the river comes from three causes: heavy rains, ice dams during spring break-up, and on-shore winds pushing Lake Erie waters upstream.

Flooding mostly affects only the lowest portions of the river.

Flooding of the river is common in early to late spring, as the often-heavy winter snow melts.

Flooding did cause considerable disruption and damage at the base camps and the high winds resulted in the abandonment of some of the manned radio checkpoints ; this and the genuine risk at river crossings were the principal reasons for cancelling the second day's competition.

Flooding around a river in Bangladesh

Flooding made the lands beside the river fertile and important for agriculture.

Flooding along the river.

* Maitpa-langga: Flooding food place-Mypolonga, opposite Wall on the river Murray was considered Peramangk territory by Berndt & Berdnt.

* Parnalartangga: Autumn Flooding Place: Panalatinga Creek as it flows through Happy Valley and into the Field river.

Flooding from Hurricane Isidore shown by AMSU channel 2

* Lartingga-parri: Flooding Land Creek – Mount Barker Creek / Laratinga Creek as it flows off of Mount Barker.

Flooding again occurred in 1939 and once more following another significant rain event in February 1945 resulted in flooding a the old Galena Bridge being swept away, effectively stranding the citizens of Carnarvon.

While the club is more than 100 years old, much of its early records were lost during the three-years Japanese occupation of Malaya from 1942 to 1945, and the 1970 fire that damaged the club ( see # Flooding and fire ).

Flooding due to rain and storms has long been an issue since the New Orleans ' early settlement due to the city's location on a delta marsh, much of which sits below sea level.

The end of his life was marked by a use of pure abstraction, during the final 4 months, as in his illustration Flooding of Sock River through Ash Grove Mo on July 4, 1914 in that drove many persons from Homes I were with the Groupe leiving their homes for safety.

* Sacramento River Flooding – Online Video from KVIE Public Television

Flooding near Key West, Florida, United States from Hurricane Wilma's storm surge in October 2005.

Flooding occurred in September, 2008 as result of the convergence of weed growth and heavy rains from southern hurricanes.

Flooding is not an extremely rare event and can inhibit many functions of the town, such as the well known occasional flooding of the bridge on DeWitt Barnett Road, inhibiting access from that side of the town.

Flooding the defensive zone outright was a rarity due to the level of endurance required from the entire team.

Flooding of the Ord River continued until completion of the Main Ord River Dam situated 55 km upstream from Kununurra, which was started in 1968, and officially opened on 30 June 1972, with support from WA Premier John Tonkin, by then Prime Minister William McMahon, when he said " This marks the beginning of Ord Stage II ( Two ).

Flooding and drought, as noted, add to the stress of the site and prevent many species from growing.

Flooding in Manitoba resulted in over $ 500 million in damages, although the Red River Floodway, an artificial waterway affectionately known as " Duff's Ditch " saved Winnipeg from flooding.

Flooding from beaver dams is relatively inexpensively controlled with flow devices.

Flooding from Irene's torrential rains caused damage around the Lake Okeechobee area.

Flooding from Keith caused several mudslides and a few rivers reached historic levels.

Damage and Flooding in Brownsville, Texas from Hurricane Beulah.

Flooding from Hurricane Gloria

Flooding forced 30, 000 people to be evacuated from their homes, and 24, 000 properties were seriously damaged.

Flooding or scrolling on an IRC network is a method of disconnecting users from an IRC server ( a form of Denial of Service ), exhausting bandwidth which causes network latency (' lag '), or just annoying users.

Flooding resulted from the passage of two Genoa low pressure systems ( named Hanne and Ilse by the Free University of Berlin ) which brought warm moist air from the Mediterranean northwards.

Flooding a link will cause all packets, including packets from the attacker, to be dropped with the same probability.