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 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 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 dam construction began in 1933, fewer than 600 boats used these waters ; ;

When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

When the upper layer cooled so its density was greater than the lower layer, the waters mixed ( 1978 – 79 ).

When not breeding, the auks spent their time foraging in the waters of the North Atlantic, ranging as far south as northern Spain through Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Ireland, and Great Britain.

When beached or in shallow water the tiller was moved to the lower hole, the blade rope was slackened and the rudder head pulled up so the rudder could operate in shallow waters.

When the Egyptian army attempted to follow, God permitted the waters to return upon them and drown them.

When it became apparent that there was no route through the heart of the continent, attention turned to the possibility of a passage through northern waters.

When news of the success of the French whaling fleet in New Zealand waters in the 1838 season reached France in 1839, a solid commercial project was added to all the others — a project which its promoters who had land to sell, hoped would develop into a scheme for effective French colonisation.

When David again warned him of the malediction, Ahithophel counseled the king to throw a tile, with the ineffable name of God written upon it, into the cavity ; whereupon the waters began to sink.

When Mieszko woke up, he found the Silnica River whose waters helped him regain strength.

When estuaries contain very shallow sills, tidal oscillations only affect near surface waters to sill depth, and waters below sill depth may remain stagnant for very long periods of time, resulting in only an occasional exchange of the deep water of the estuary with the ocean.

When the storm has cleared and the waters have subsided, Deucalion and Pyrrha are taken aback by the desolate wreckage of the land, and understand that they are now responsible for repopulating the earth.

When he grew up, he descended into the waters of Alpheios and invoked Poseidon, his grandfather, and Apollo, his father, asking them to reveal his destiny to him.

When he thought her to be gone, Hermaphroditus undressed and entered the waters of the empty pool.

When Kansas and Colorado fall out over the waters in the Arkansas River, they don't go to war over it ; they go to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the matter is settled in a just and honorable way.

When Ekman transport is occurring away from the coast, surface waters moving away are replaced by deeper, colder, and denser water.

When the waters finally receded, it was not clear if Leavenworth would be occupied again.

When Martin Boots and David Branson each donated of land in 1831 for the site of Marion, they chose a location on the left bank of the swift, scenic river which the Miami Indians had named " Mississinewa ," meaning " laughing waters.

When the US halibut season is closed, some fishermen obtain Canadian fishing licenses and launch from Neah Bay, running approximately to the portion of Swiftsure Bank that lies in Canadian waters.

When the Leviathan is hungry, reports R. Dimi in the name of R. Johanan, he sends forth from his mouth a heat so great as to make all the waters of the deep boil, and if he would put his head into Paradise no living creature could endure the odor of him ( ib .).

When the British fleet arrived at the Dardanelles the weather was rough so the fleet took refuge in the outer waters of the straits.

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The Babylonian epic Enuma Elish is named for its incipit: " When above " the heavens did not yet exist nor the earth below, Apsu the freshwater ocean was there, " the first, the begetter ", and Tiamat, the saltwater sea, " she who bore them all "; they were " mixing their waters ".