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.

When a river is in flood, it is at its most powerful, and moves the greatest amount of sediment.

When agriculture was first developed, simple hand-held digging sticks and hoes were used in highly fertile areas, such as the banks of the Nile where the annual flood rejuvenates the soil, to create drills ( furrows ) to plant seeds in.

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.

When the river is in flood stage, its silted delta outlets are unable to carry off the high volume of water.

When Struensee abolished all censorship of the press, it mostly resulted in a flood of anti-Struensee pamphlets.

Gresham's law is an economic principle that states: " When a government compulsorily overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money will leave the country or disappear from circulation into hoards, while the overvalued money will flood into circulation.

The traditional Chinese response of building higher and higher levees along the banks sometimes also contributed to the severity of the floods: When flood water did break through the levees, it could no longer drain back into the river bed as it would after a normal flood as the river bed was sometimes now higher than the surrounding countryside.

When a floodway is shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps, the portion of the 100-year floodplain outside of the floodway is known as the flood fringe.

When these assumptions are violated there is an unknown amount of uncertainty introduced into the reported value of what the 100-year flood means in terms of rainfall intensity, or river flood depth.

When Enlil arrives, angry that there are survivors, she condemns him for instigating the flood.

When a great flood occurred, the survivors, who were living on mountains that had now become islands, split into two groups: one group remained and took Deimas as king while the other sailed away, eventually settling in the island of Samothrace.

When this deluge has been considered global, a similarity is noticed with Noah's flood in the Bible.

When the tablet resumes, it is describing the flood.

When the flood waters subsided, the boat was grounded on the mountain of Nisir.

When a flood of refugees from the quake came, Daly and other local farmers donated milk and other food items.

When the Ohio River would rise, homes in Dayton and Newport would flood while homes in Bellevue ( with the exception of homes in close proximity to the riverbank ) remained safe from rising water.

When a high tide occurs at the same time as a large amount of precipitation, the river can flood the tracks and boardwalks surrounding the area.

“ When he looks at someone, it is the look of death .” “ Huwawa ’ s roar is a flood, his mouth is death and his breath is fire!

When the expansion is completed, the capacity of the floodway will increase to 4, 000 cubic metres ( 140, 000 cubic feet ) per second, the estimated level of a 1-in-700 year flood event.

When compared to sending messages normally, this reduces IRC network load, allows sending of larger amounts of text at once, due to the lack of flood control, and makes the communication more secure by not exposing the message to the IRC servers ( however, the message is still in plaintext ).

When he was drafted into the army in 1894, his gift for turning notions upside down defeated attempts to instill military discipline.

When representatives of Fulham first came across the land, in 1894, it was so overgrown that it took two years to be made suitable for football to be played on it.

When the railway opened to Fort William on 7 August 1894, the station was given prime position at the south end of the town.

When Maria's eldest sister Alexandra visited Gatchina in July 1894, she was surprised to see how weak her brother-in-law Alexander III had become.

When Gladstone retired after the defeat of the second Home Rule Bill in 1894, the Welsh Liberal members chose him to serve on a deputation to William Harcourt to press for specific assurances on Welsh issues ; when those were not provided, they resolved to take independent action if the government did not bring a bill for disestablishment.

When Wegener died in 1956, Raeder refused to deliver the eulogy as his position as the senior most surviving member of the " enlistment crew " of 1894 would normally have obliged him to do.

When it was given in Paris in October 1894, " Verdi composed a short ballet ( which ) forms part of the ceremony of welcome for the Venetian ambassadors in the act 3 finale.

When Herman's father died in 1894, his mother moved the family to Maribor ( at that time also officially named Marburg ).

When the symphonic poem Paa Vidderne was performed at Monte Carlo on 25 February 1894 in a programme of works from British composers, the Musical Times listed the composers as "... Balfe, Mackenzie, Oakeley, Sullivan ... and one Delius, whoever he may be ".

When her brother died in 1894, Yaa Asantewaa used her right as Queen Mother to nominate her own grandson as Ejisuhene.

When the ship canal opened in January 1894 it was the largest river navigation canal in the world.

When the distance from the pitcher's mound to the plate was lengthened by ten feet in 1894 ( primarily to reduce the dominance of Cy Young ’ s pitching ), the effectiveness of Grey ’ s pitching suffered.

When, in 1894, Rigoberto Cabezas led a campaign to annex the reserve, natives responded with vigorous protest, an appeal to Britain to protect them, and more militant resistance — to little avail.

When Sir William Gregory died in March 1892, Lady Gregory went into mourning and returned to Coole Park where she edited her husband's autobiography, which she published in 1894.

From 1884 the town was administered by the Chesham Local Government District, which was succeeded in 1894 by Chesham Urban District under the Local Government Act 1894. Chesham Town crest When the Local Government Act 1972 came into effect on 1 April 1974 the urban district was abolished in favour of the Chiltern district and the civil parish was given town council status.

When this auction was declared illegal, his young son took over the reins of the huge ranch and accelerated efforts to increase its agricultural production In 1894, Irvine's son, James Irvine II, incorporated the land holdings as the Irvine Company.

When Wells returned to Britain in 1894, she brought a copy of the article with her, and openly mocked Willard and the temperance movement for its attention to the " evils " of card playing, sports and lewd dancing, while " during all the years which men, women, and children were scourged, hanged, shot and burned, the WCTU had no word, either of pity or protest.

When he took his seat in September objection was taken to claims of parliamentary corruption he had made when resigning from Parliament in 1894, and Sir Alexander Stuart moved a resolution affirming that the words he had used were a gross libel on the house.

When the Donghak Peasant Revolution broke out in 1894 he commanded a Donghak army regiment, but was eventually defeated and went into hiding.

When these switchmen were disciplined, the entire ARU struck the railroads on June 26, 1894.

When Archduke Wilhelm suddenly died, Eugen was enthroned as the new Hoch-und Deutschmeister on 19 November 1894 and in this office he also proved himself very effective.

When Fry was only twenty-one, the magazine Vanity Fair published a caricature of him in its issue of 19 April 1894, with the comment: " He is sometimes known as " C. B.

When in 1894 the women's annex to the university was chartered as a full college, it was given the name of Harvard's first female benefactor.