Gradual silt buildup in the Yellow River had raised its water level and overwhelmed the flood control works.

A comment in Grey's Polynesian Mythology may have given the Māori something they did not have before — as A. W Reed put it, " In Polynesian Mythology Grey said that when Tāwhaki's ancestors released the floods of heaven, the earth was overwhelmed and all human beings perished — thus providing the Māori with his own version of the universal flood " ( Reed 1963: 165, in a footnote ).

Phnom Penh, which had a pre-war population of around 600, 000, was overwhelmed by refugees ( who continued to flood in from the steadily collapsing defense perimeter ), growing to a size of around two million.

This king resided at Iconium, the most eastern city of the kingdom of Phrygia at that time ; and after his death, at the age of 300 years, a great flood overwhelmed the country, as had been foretold by an ancient oracle.

During the 1889 flood, the weir was overwhelmed, its gates jammed, and in trying to free them the weir's designer John Langdon was crippled.

The flood and waves overwhelmed sea defences and caused extensive flooding.

In the winter of 1990, Gloucester saw its worst snow in a century and when the thaw came the River Severn overwhelmed all the local flood plains.

The station, which was opened by the South Eastern Railway in 1890, is named after the nearby residence of the Cator Family, demolished in 1896. Clock House retains its original street level booking hall and the remnants of its platform canopies and was formerly known for its tendency to flood whenever overwhelmed by the Chaffinch brook.

These caused a river of blood to flood New York City, encased San Francisco in solid amber, made Oklahoma disappear, placed the city of Asgard in an other-dimensional prison, boiled the seas of Atlantis, created and activated volcanoes, overwhelmed Philadelphia with vegetation, incapacitated the New Avengers, melted vibranium ore, summoned swarms of flesh-eating insects in Toronto, reduced the Fantastic Four into television signals, transformed the Young Avengers into stone, and called an intense snowstorm to strike the Arizona desert.

In modern times, rivers do not generally flood as often in areas employing flood control.

In the world of Goth, nature itself lurks as a malign protagonist, causing flesh to rot, rivers to flood, monuments to crumble and women to turn into slatterns, their hair streaming and lipstick askew ".

Intermittent lakes, fed by the rivers in flood, also characterize southeastern Iraq.

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.

He was even said to divert rivers to flood enemy villages and clans.

After heavy rains these rivers sometimes flood nearby lowlands.

Once they reach the plain, the rivers slow down and the waters meander across flood plains and deltas.

The water equivalent of snowfall is measured to monitor how much liquid is available to flood rivers from meltwater which will occur during the following spring.

* In the Manu Smriti, the sage Manu, escaping from a flood, founded the Vedic culture between the Sarasvati and Drishadvati rivers.

The flood waters were exacerbated by the sediments washed down by the millions of tons by hydraulic mining, which filled the beds of the Sacramento, Feather and American rivers up to in Sacramento and also covered thousands of acres of Central Valley lands.

It largely depended upon the flood waters that would flow through the Nile River and other rivers in what is now the Sudan.

*" Well Diggers Trick ", June 1951, Popular Science article on how flood control engineers were using an old method to protect flood levees along rivers from seepage undermining the levvee-i. e.

The deep blue of the rivers is spread across the countryside in the flood image.

Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if they are placed in natural flood plains of rivers.

While flood damage can be virtually eliminated by moving away from rivers and other bodies of water, since time out of mind, people have lived and worked by the water to seek sustenance and capitalize on the gains of cheap and easy travel and commerce by being near water.

This may be later followed by a river flood as water moves away from the areal floodplain into local rivers and streams.

Unknown amounts of dioxins were flushed into the Elbe and Mulde rivers during the 2002 European flood, contaminating the soils.

The resultant length of the flood-protected river comprises 2, 940 km ( out of 4, 220 km of all Hungarian protected rivers ) which forms one of the largest flood protection systems in Europe ; larger than the Netherlands ' 1, 500 km, the Po River's 1, 400 km, or the Loire Valley's 480 km.

While flooding has been common with Binghamton sitting at the confluence of two rivers, a major flood was able to overcome the city's flood walls and wreak havoc in June 2006, causing millions of dollars in damage.

long has a general westward direction down to the confluence with the Atabapo and Guaviare rivers at San Fernando de Atabapo ; the second flows northward, for about, along the Venezuelan-Colombian border, flanked on both sides by the westernmost granitic upwellings of the Guiana Shield which impede the development of a flood plain, to the Atures rapids near the confluence with the Meta River at Puerto Carreño,

The bodies of the numerous warriors choke the rivers, causing a flood which filled the valleys with dead men and horses.

In Haitian Vodou, Clermeil was the loa who made rivers flood their banks.

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.