Before 2000, arguments that the Deccan Traps flood basalts caused the extinction were usually linked to the view that the extinction was gradual, as the flood basalt events were thought to have started around 68 Ma and lasted for over 2 million years.

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 ).

On 16 February 1962, the North Sea flood of that year caused the Elbe to rise to an all-time high, inundating one-fifth of Hamburg and killing more than 300 people.

Hurricane Katrina caused over $ 80 billion of storm and flood damage

Warmer than normal weather in the interior caused large amounts of snow to melt prematurely, resulting in higher than normal water levels, which, nevertheless, remained well below flood levels.

Koshi River in the first category caused a major flood in August 2008 in Bihar state, India after breaking through a poorly-maintained embankment just inside Nepal.

An important Gnostic text, the Apocryphon of John, reports that the chief archon caused the flood because he desired to destroy the world he had made, but the First Thought informed Noah of the chief archon's plans, and Noah informed the remainder of humanity.

Following the death of her parents when she was very young, she lived with her grandmother, Felisa Howard on Arvada III, a colony planet until a great moon collision caused the planet to flood, forcing its evacuation.

The attack took the form of a SYN flood which caused only minimal damage.

When Sentaro was in danger, Skuld created a huge wave which saved him, although Urd, who was nearby, stated that it would have caused a huge flood if she hadn't been there to help contain it.

In 2002, torrential rains caused the Elbe to flood above its normal height, i. e. even higher than the old record height from 1845, damaging many landmarks ( See 2002 European flood ).

In spring 1570 the Weißeritz caused severe flood damage at a embankment, which hampered the building project for a short time.

He gained the reputation as a Macher ( doer ) someone who gets things done regardless of obstaclesby his effective management during the emergency caused by the 1962 flood.

In August 2002 a flood of the Vltava killed several people and caused massive damage and disruption along its length.

During February 2000 heavy rainfalls ( due to a cyclone ) caused the catastrophic 2000 Mozambique flood.

Flash flood ing caused by heavy rain falling in a short amount of time.

If the irrigator neglected to repair his dike or left his runnel open and caused a flood, he had to make good the damage done to his neighbours ' crops or be sold with his family to pay the cost.

On 26 June 2007, rising flood water caused Burway Bridge in Ludlow to collapse, severing a gas main and causing 20 homes in nearby Corve Street to be evacuated.

The lahar caused the Tangiwai disaster, with the loss of 151 lives, when the Tangiwai railway bridge across the Whangaehu River collapsed while the lahar was in full flood, just before an express train crossed it.

In late August 2011, Hurricane Irene off the New Jersey coast caused the Susquehanna River to rise to flood stage but was no cause for alarm for the city.

Natural calamities, such as floods, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, and tidal bores — destructive waves or floods caused by flood tides rushing up estuaries — ravage the country, particularly the coastal belt, almost every year.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

In 2010, Currie, though still favouring the hunting pack hypothesis, admitted that the concentration could have been brought about by other causes, such as a slowly rising water level during an extended flood.

Although Cambria Iron and Steel's facilities were heavily damaged by the flood, they returned to full production within a year .. After the flood, Carnegie built Johnstown a new library to replace the one built by Cambria's chief legal counsel Cyrus Elder, which was destroyed in the flood.

The bridge was swept away during a flood, and later repaired by Puspagupta, the chief architect of emperor Chandragupta I.

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.

Boone was served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( nicknamed " Tweetsie ") until the flood of 1940.

Downriver of Grand Coulee, each dam's reservoir is closely regulated by the Bonneville Power Administration ( BPA ), the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, and various Washington public utility districts to ensure flow, flood control, and power generation objectives are met.

The sediment deposited into the lake during the Mekong's flood stage appears to be greater than the quantity carried away later by the Tonle Sap River.

During flood stage, the Casiquiare's main outflow point into the Rio Negro is supplemented by an overflow that is a second, and more minor, entry river bifurcation into the Rio Negro and upstream from its major, common low-water entry confluence with the Rio Negro.

During the Nationalist's retreat from Nanjing, the dams around the city were deliberately destroyed by the Nationalist army in order to delay the Japanese advance, killing 500, 000 people in the subsequent 1938 Yellow River flood.

Campbell had to move the CN7 off the lake in the middle of the night to save the car from being submerged by the rising flood waters.

According to the Sumerians, Enlil helped create the humans, but then got tired of their noise and tried to kill them by sending a flood.

A mortal known as Utnapishtim survived the flood through the help of another god, Ea, and he was made immortal by Enlil after Enlil's initial fury.

In all stages of stream erosion, by far the most erosion occurs during times of flood, when more and faster-moving water is available to carry a larger sediment load.

Aside from the unspoken conviction that Elizabeth was not his child, Burghley's papers reveal a flood of bitter complaints by Oxford against the Cecil family.

Adapting the algorithm to use an additional array to store the shape of the region allows generalization to cover " fuzzy " flood filling, where an element can differ by up to a specified threshold from the source symbol.

* Sample implementations for recursive and non-recursive, classic and scanline flood fill, by Lode Vandevenne.

* Flash flood fill implementation, by Emanuele Feronato.

When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.

In 1928, the town was devastated by a flood caused by the failure of the St. Francis Dam.

According to the Disaster Center, the flood directly killed, either through starvation from crop failure or drowning, an estimated 2 million people, while other areas were affected in other ways as well.

Glen Canyon's spillways were used for flood purposes only once in 1983, which caused severe damage that nearly led to dam failure ( see section above ).

This was not due to any flood or mechanical failure, but rather was a controlled effort to assist the recovery of the damaged riverine ecosystem by mimicking the spring freshets that once swept through the canyons yearly.

** Outland's study of the dam and the ensuing flood, first published in 1963, is the only widely published comprehensive work about the dam, the failure, and the disaster.

When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims, as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.

When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for tangible assistance to the flood victims as well as determining to never speak publicly about the club or the flood.

A failure of the faceplate can be a life threatening incident with some full face masks, as the water will flood into the oro-nasal inner mask and compromise the air supply.

The most current example of levee failure in the Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta was documented in June of 2004 when a levee breach caused more than 150, 000 acre · ft ( 190, 000, 000 m3 ) of water to flood the entire island of Jones Tract.

: A party is not liable for failure to perform the party's obligations if such failure is as a result of Acts of God ( including fire, flood, earthquake, storm, hurricane or other natural disaster ), war, invasion, act of foreign enemies, hostilities ( regardless of whether war is declared ), civil war, rebellion, revolution, insurrection, military or usurped power or confiscation, terrorist activities, nationalisation, government sanction, blockage, embargo, labor dispute, strike, lockout or interruption or failure of electricity or telephone service.

Dadford's bridge over the Usk collapsed in February 1795, when the river was in flood, and the fact that he had not built flood relief culverts into the embankments on either side of the bridge was deemed to have been a contributory factor in its failure.

In the metalliferous mines of Cornwall, some of the worst accidents were at East Wheal Rose in 1846, where 39 workers were killed by a sudden flood ; at Levant mine in 1919, where 31 were killed and many injured in a failure of the man engine ; 12 killed at Wheal Agar in 1883 when a cage fell down a shaft ; and seven killed at Dolcoath mine in 1893 when a large stull collapsed.

To protect other dams from failure, several flood diversion areas were evacuated and inundated, and several dams were deliberately destroyed by air strikes to release water in desired directions.

Mervue United took a two goal lead before a flood light failure resulted in the game being stopped for 15 minutes.

Kim Anh Restaurant building ( photographed after Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans | Hurricane Katrina levee failure flood damage in 2005 )

The failure of ESWS circulating pumps was one of the factors that endangered safety during the 1999 Blayais Nuclear Power Plant flood.

Habitat destruction vastly increases an area's vulnerability to natural disasters like flood and drought, crop failure, spread of disease, and water contamination.