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.

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.

From Kampong Cham the gradient slopes very gently, and inundation of areas along the river occurs at flood stage — June through November — through breaks in the natural levees that have built up along its course.

Having caught a cold from a flood which inundated his house, he died in November 1633, at the age of fifty-seven, apparently in needy circumstances.

* November 7, 1824 – In the worst flood to date in Saint Petersburg, water rises 421 cm above normal and 200 lose their lives.

* November 17 – November 19 – St. Elizabeth flood: The coastal area near Dordrecht in the Netherlands is flooded due to the extremely high tide of the North Sea ; 72 villages are drowned, killing about 10, 000 people.

* November 7 – In the worst flood to date in Saint Petersburg, water rises 421 cm above normal and 200 lose their lives.

* November 19 – St. Elizabeth's flood devastates parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland.

* November – A flood in Edessa destroys a Christian church, killing over 2, 000 people.

Image: Flooding along the Illinois River ( After ). jpg | Early November 2009 ( during the flood ).

She said that he foresaw the end of the world in a " universal flood " which would begin on March 21, 4006, and end on November 1 the same year.

Due to the damage suffered as the result of a flood in November 2006 the park service did not accept reservations for the 2007 summer season for attempts to hike the entire Wonderland Trail.

* 1404, November 19, first Saint Elisabeth flood, Belgium and Netherlands, major loss of land

* 1421, November 19, second Saint Elisabeth flood, Netherlands, storm tide in combination with extreme high water in rivers due to heavy rains, 10, 000 to 100, 000 deaths

* 1424, November 18, third Saint Elisabeth flood, Netherlands

* 1532, November 1, All Saints flood, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany, several towns disappear, many thousands of deaths

* 1570, November 1, All Saints flood, Belgium and Netherlands, several towns disappear, more than 20, 000 deaths

* 1686, November 12, Saint Martin flood, Netherlands, 1586 deaths

* 2007, November 8 / 9, North Sea flood of 2007

It was one of few buildings that remained standing after the break of the Kelly Barnes Dam and flood that occurred in November 1977.

The threat in the Barlby area has been alleviated to some extent by work on improved, better flood barriers following the major flood of November 2000.

This area of the Town along with Parnell Street and Mill Road was routinely susceptible to flooding, but the flood defence system put an end to the event in Parnell Street and the Mill Road areas, although in November 2009 other parts of the town experienced severe flooding.

Cockermouth suffered badly in the nation-wide flood on 19 and 20 November 2009.

The region receives about 90 % of its rainfall during the short wet season, from November to April, when cyclones are common ( especially around Broome ) and the rivers flood.