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 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 flood in 1894 wiped out the first lots, Malaney moved the town south to higher ground.

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 she left, she managed to acquire safe passage for all the refugees who had sought refuge in her home.

When the British evacuated New York City in 1783, they took many Loyalist refugees to Nova Scotia, while other Loyalists went to southwestern Quebec.

When the civil war ended in 1949, 2 million refugees, predominantly from the Nationalist government, military, and business community, fled to Taiwan.

Researchers seeking to rebut accusations of anti-Semitism often point to the fact that Kolbe sheltered Jewish refugees during the war, and, according to one person who worked close to him: " When Jews came to me asking for a piece of bread, I asked Father Maximilian if I could give it to them in good conscience, and he answered me, ' Yes, it is necessary to do this because all men are our brothers.

When afterwards the Trojan refugees led by Aeneas also arrived there, Elymus built for them the towns of Segesta and Elyme, and the Trojans who settled in that part of Sicily called themselves Elymi, after Elymus.

When the yellow fever epidemic hit Tampa in the fall of 1887 and in 1888, many Tampa refugees fled in panic to Seffner for temporary shelter in the hotel there ( non-extant ).

When the Ming dynasty in China fell, several thousand Chinese refugees fled south and extensively settled on Cham lands and in Cambodia.

When refugees from the fire-stricken, poorer Jewish quarter of San Francisco came to Oakland, the synagogue provided immediate aid.

When Israeli forces took over west Beirut, he was eager to settle old scores with the Palestinian refugees living there, particularly after the assassination of the LF's commander, President-elect Bashir Gemayel.

When al-Ludd, as it was known by its Arab inhabitants was captured by Israel, the Arab inhabitants fled or were expelled and the city was settled by Jewish immigrants, most of them refugees from Arab countries.

When he accompanied Sikorski on a mission to Mexico in 1941 seeking a home for 4, 000 Polish refugees, the positive reception moved Szeryng so deeply that he decided to become a Mexican naturalized citizen, and did so in 1946.

When Pontiac's Rebellion occurred in 1763, refugees again fled into the city, including a group of Lenape hiding from other Native Americans, angry at their pacifism, and white frontiersmen.

When Tunku, who was famous sympathy for the distressed heard about this problem, he visited the market, talked to some of the refugees and called a meeting at his house.

When Ahrensburg received city rights in 1949, the town had some 17 775 inhabitants-around half of which were refugees from the former eastern German regions.

When the British troops occupied New York Harbor in the lead-up to the American Revolutionary War, the island was to be used for housing for Tory refugees, but on April 2, 1776, the buildings constructed on the island for their use were burned to the ground.

When we asked for food and medicine for the refugees, the Australians sent commando troops on board.

When those refugees not claimed by New Zealand arrived on Nauru, many of them refused to leave the boat after several additional weeks on board waiting for temporary shelters to be constructed, recognising they were to be held in detention camps pending the adjudication of their cases.

When they arrived, he ordered bulldozers to crush the refugees within and Hutu militias to kill any survivors.

When he does not succeed, he permits his ship to become an ark for the refugees from Resurgam.

When the Narn are utterly defeated and re-enslaved by the Centauri after the Narn-Centauri War, Vir uses his post as the Centauri Ambassador to Minbar to help Narn refugees.

When several Thailand-based Hmong refugee camps closed due to a lack of financial support in the early 1990s, Hmong refugees in Thailand fled to the temple to avoid repatriation to Laos.

When the volcano Eldfell erupted on January 23, 1973, the school was opened for refugees from the Westman Islands, and the school was open until the eruption had ended.

Ultimately, Muhammad refused on the basis of revelation from God: " When there come to you believing women refugees, examine and test them ... if ye ascertain they are believers, send them not to the unbelievers " ( Qur ' an 60: 10 ).

When the school system was overwhelmed by the immigration of Nicaraguan refugees in 1988-1989, Krop led efforts to address the crisis, and called upon the federal government to provide aid.