The following spring, a Danube flood prevented Valens from crossing ; instead the Emperor occupied his troops with the construction of fortifications.

For example SYN flood can be prevented using delayed binding or TCP splicing.

* Average annual damages prevented by Corps flood risk management projects ( 1995 – 2004 ) of $ 21 billion ( see " Civil works controversies " below )

There are two channels between widely-spaced embankments with the intention that flood waters would have space in which to spread while the tide in the estuary prevented free egress.

Through Crowland and Cowbit to the edge of Spalding, the river is laid out with washlands, which were historically used as pasture, because the river was allowed to flood the land when tidal levels prevented the water discharging into the sea.

Although occasional boats were still reaching Bourne in 1857, the self-acting doors at Tongue End were replaced by a sluice in the 1860s, which prevented passage from the Glen to the Bourne Eau, although the right of navigation was not officially revoked until 1962, as part of flood defence measures which included the replacement of the sluice by a pumping station in 1966.

Used more than 20 times from its completion in 1968 to 2006, the Floodway has prevented an estimated $ 10 billion ( CAD ) in cumulative flood damages.

However, a catastrophic flood was prevented when a guard gate located upstream of the lock closed into place preventing the upstream waters from careening down the route of the Canal and causing further damage and possible injury or loss of life.

The estimated flood damages prevented in 2007 are $ 1. 3 million.

MLW continued to benefit from Canada's restrictive trade policies which prevented a flood of U. S. imports.

* July 6-Kate Shelley prevented a train with 200 passengers from going over the Honey Creek Bridge after it was washed out during a flash flood near Des Moines, Iowa.

Since its completion, Oroville Dam has controlled the flow of the Feather River for diversion into the SWP California Aqueduct, which provides a major irrigation water supply to the Central Valley and municipal water to coastal Southern California, and has prevented large amounts of flood damage – more than $ 1. 3 billion between 1987 and 1999 alone.

* although routine floods are prevented, the project cannot have any effect on major floods, as shown by the flood of 1994 ( 3000 m³ / s in Cadarache ).

It is estimated that the dam has prevented more than $ 500 million in flood damages since its construction.

From 1979 to 1993, the dam and reservoir prevented an estimated $ 128, 500, 000 in flood damage.

During the North Sea flood of 1953, this dam proved its worth: it resisted the flood and prevented flooding in the hinterland.

Since then, the dam has prevented millions of dollars in flood damages and fostered extensive development of agriculture on the fertile floodplain of the Kings River ; after 1984 it has also generated hydroelectricity.

This was the last major flood event on the Kings River before the completion of Pine Flat Dam, which would have " prevented much damage … had been completed ".

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.

* 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces.

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 ).

The 1938 flood of an area covering 54, 000 km² took some 500, 000 to 900, 000 Chinese lives, along with an unknown number of Japanese soldiers.

The government also tried to slow down the advancing Japanese by causing the 1938 Huang He flood, which covered three provinces.

As the Japanese economy worsened in the 1990s, the flood of new OVA titles diminished to a trickle.

Though the negatives for the series were damaged in a warehouse flood, the episodes on the Japanese DVDs were taken from the best existing sources.

The Chinese National Revolutionary Army destroyed dams and levees in an attempt to flood the land to slow down the advancement of Japanese soldiers, further adding to the environmental impact.

Kunming was transformed into a modern city as a result of the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 when the invading Japanese forces caused a great number of east-coast Chinese refugees, some of whom were wealthy, to flood into the southwest of China.

The use of brutal scorched earth tactics by both sides, the Chinese as in 1938 Yellow River flood and later by the Japanese with the Three Alls Policy, " kill all, burn all, loot all ", initiated in 1940, claimed millions of lives.

* Poland: The Japanese Garden in Wrocław-founded 1913, restored 1996-1997, destroyed by flood, restored 1999

The surprise flood kills many Japanese but also as many as 1, 000, 000 civilians.

In 1982, Japanese horticulturalists took cuttings from Yoshino trees in Washington, D. C., to replace cherry trees that had been destroyed in a flood in Japan.

The flood, known now as the 1938 Yellow River flood, forced the Japanese to delay their attack on Wuhan.

* Kaifeng flood of 1642: Some 300, 000 people die when the Ming Dynasty army in China intentionally breaks the dams and dykes of the Yellow River to break the siege by the large rebel force of Li Zicheng.

During the flood of 1864, the army camp was covered with water, and the soldiers had to suddenly flee to higher ground.

Over this Hongerwinter (" Hunger winter "), a number of factors combined to cause starvation of the Dutch people: the winter itself was unusually harsh and the retreating German army destroyed docks and bridges to flood the country and impede the Allied advance.

Despite the flood of new weapons systems unveiled in the war in Europe, the army paid scant attention.

Beresford began to bring his army forward on 4 April, but a sudden flood swept away his makeshift bridge across the Guadiana, trapping the Allied vanguard on the eastern bank.

The player can make many choices during the campaign, such as, according to Evan Brooks of Computer Gaming World: " One may transfer soldiers between fiefs, go to war, increase taxes ( which causes a decrease in peasant loyalty which may lead to rebellion ), transfer rice or gold to another fief, raise the level of flood control ( which decreases productivity ), make a non-aggression pact or arrange a marriage, cultivate ( which increases productivity, but decreases peasant loyalty ), use a merchant ( to buy / sell rice, borrow funds, or purchase weapons ), recruit for the military ( soldiers or ninja ), train the army ( which increases fighting efficiency ), spy on a rival, expand a town ( which increases taxes collected, but decreases peasant loyalty ), give food / rice to peasants / soldiers ( to raise morale ), steal peasants from rival daimyos, allocate military strength, recuperate ( even a daimyo can get sick ), turn over a controlled fief to the computer for administration, or pass a turn ( hint: when one has no idea of what to do, train the troops.

This proves to be a grave mistake ; at the siege of Fort Besselat, when the Southern Sky army is immobilized by Ramza Beoulve's opening of the garrison flood gates, Goltanna is assassinated by Delita amidst the confusion.

However, when this injustice became known to the army they revolted " kudipaka " ( blood flood ).

It took place at the town of Kār Ištar in the province of Ugarsulu and victory was assured when Adad Nirari ’ s army fell on the Kassite camp “ like a devastating flood ,” as described gloatingly by Tukulti-Ninurta I in his eponymous epic, plundering and carrying off his royal standard.