And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.

A flood of mentalité studies based on these approaches appeared during the 1970s and 1980s.

According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.

While a flood will kill most plants living low on the ground in a certain area, if there is rice there, it will thrive in the wet conditions.

Intel introduced AGP support with the i440LX Slot 1 chipset on August 26, 1997, and a flood of products followed from all the major system board vendors.

A flood on November 4, 1966 collapsed the embankment in Florence, killing at least 40 people and damaging or destroying millions of works of art and rare books.

Nevertheless, Tallard was alarmed by the repulse of the elite Gens d ' Armes and urgently rode across the field to ask Marsin for reinforcements ; but on the basis of being hard pressed by Eugene – whose second attack was in full flood – Marsin refused.

Another major flood happened on June 12, 2008, when severe thunderstorms caused Duck Creek to overflow its banks and flood properties and nearby streets ( see Iowa flood of 2008 ).

Based on data from marine magnetic profiles, a pulse of unusually rapid plate motion begins at the same time as the first pulse of Deccan flood basalts, which is dated at 67 Myr ago.

Ephrem celebrated what he saw as the miraculous salvation of the city in a hymn which portrayed Nisibis as being like Noah's Ark, floating to safety on the flood.

Travelers crossing the county on the Overland Trail would camp there, but a flood destroyed the camp in June 1864.

Around the city there are tiny placards on the walls noting where the flood waters reached at their highest point.

The classic recursive flood fill algorithm was available on this system as well.

Version 0. 46 of Inkscape includes a bucket fill tool, giving output similar to ordinary bitmap operations and indeed using one: the canvas is rendered, a flood fill operation is performed on the selected area and the result is then traced back to a path.

The New York Times ran several editorials and op-eds that condemned the punishment and called on the American public to flood the Singaporean embassy with protests.

For example, the Rogalin Landscape Park is famous for about 2000 monumental oak trees growing on the flood plain of the river Warta, among numerous ox-bow lakes.

Some attention was given to problems of flood control and drainage before the revolution of July 14, 1958, but development plans in the 1960s and 1970s were increasingly devoted to these matters, as well as to irrigation projects on the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates and the tributaries of the Tigris in the northeast.

The distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attack uses compromised computer systems to orchestrate a flood of requests on the target system, causing it to shut down and deny service to other users.

Agassiz believed that the writers of the bible only knew of local events, for example Noah's flood was a local event only known to the regions that were populated by ancient Hebrews, Agassiz claimed the writers of the bible did not know about any events other than what was going on in their own region and their intermediate neighbors.

A number of Trailer Sailers sailed on Lake Eyre in 1975, 1976 and 1984 when the flood depth reached 3 – 6 m ( 10 – 20 ft ).

* 1904 – The " most extensive flood in 135 years of local history " causes the Grand River to overflow its banks on March 24 – 27, leading to major damage and one death.

Later rabbinical legends made Og a survivor of the flood, suggesting the he had sat on the Ark and was fed by Noah.

* 1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.

The rivers are at their lowest level in September and October and at flood in March, April, and May when they may carry forty times as much water as at low mark.

As the flood did not start filling the lake's deepest point ( Belt Bay ) until late March little bird life appeared preferring instead to nest in the upper reaches of the Lake Eyre Basin, north of Birdsville, where large lakes appeared in January as a result of monsoonal rain.

Premiering in Japanese theaters on March 19, 1983, Final Yamato reunites the crew one more time to combat the threat of the Denguilu, a militaristic alien civilization that intends to use the water planet, Aquarius, to flood Earth and resettle there ( having lost their home planet to a galactic collision ).

* March 16 – The largest flood in the history of Brampton, Ontario, occurs.

Federal officials started a flood in the Grand Canyon in hopes of restoring its ecosystem on March 5, 2008.

The 1947 Thames flood was worst overall 20th century flood of the River Thames, affecting much of the Thames Valley as well as elsewhere in England during the middle of March 1947 after a severe winter.

She said that he foresaw the end of the world in a " universal flood " which would begin on March 21, 4006, and end on November 1 the same year.

All told, there have been 119 flood defence closures up to the closing on March 2, 2010.

Retrieved 31 March 2007 .</ ref > and but for the Thames Barrier and other flood prevention works would be vulnerable to flooding.

Another devastating flood occurred in 1929 when the river crested at a depth of early on March 15.

( The levee had its big flood test in March 2008 ; it saved Valley Park from yet another devastating flood.

That is, until March 1913 when the flood of floods occurred.

The town of Barnsdall experienced a tornado in April 1911, a major fire in March 1913 and a flood in September 1915.

The biggest flood occurred on March 18, 1936, when the river crested at, which was about above the flood stage of.

On Tuesday, March 1, 1977, workers in the Porter Tunnel mine, while working in a new area, broke into a flooded area of the abandoned Bush Old Bootleg Slope Mine, causing the Porter Tunnel to flood.

In March 2011, Crary Park in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania was inundated with a flood when the Susquehanna at Wilkes-Barre rose above 27 feet.

The flood of March 2010 reached 2, 500 cfs.

Stream Gaging Station, Carnation, during the March 13, 2007 flood

The most severe flood of record on the main trunk of the Mohawk River was the spring breakup flood that occurred from 27 – 28 March 1914.

This dam with twenty radial flood gates was almost completed when visited by the Queen and Prince Phillip in March 1963, then later completed and officially opened by then Prime Minister, ( Sir ) Robert Menzies on 20 July 1963 when he said that Kununurra and the Ord River Irrigation Area ( ORIA ) is ".. the most exciting place in Australia.