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2. Missoula floods - Wikipedia

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   The Missoula floods (also known as the Spokane floods or the Bretz floods or Bretz's floods) were cataclysmic glacial lake outburst floods that swept periodically across eastern Washington and down the Columbia River Gorge at the end of the last ice age. These floods were the result of periodic sudden ruptures of the ice dam on the Clark Fork ...

3. Flood insurance rate map - Wikipedia

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   A flood insurance rate map ( FIRM) is an official map of a community within the United States that displays the floodplains, more explicitly special hazard areas and risk premium zones, as delineated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [1] The term is used mainly in the United States but similar maps exist in many other countries ...

4. National Flood Insurance Program - Wikipedia

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   The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is a program created by the Congress of the United States in 1968 through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-448). The NFIP has two purposes: to share the risk of flood losses through flood insurance and to reduce flood damages by restricting floodplain development.

5. Evacuations ordered for 2.5 million people across Florida. Is ...

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   About 2.5 million Floridians are evacuating from their homes, Gov. Ron DeSantis told the Weather Channel on Tuesday. The counties in evacuation zones include Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee ...

6. In Pasco, Idalia’s flood waters came fast: ‘Don’t ... - AOL

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   HUDSON — Ellen Feiler didn’t think Hurricane Idalia would amount to much when she went to sleep in her mobile home in the Hudson Hollow RV Park. She had ice and plenty of food — and besides ...

7. Study finds more people are moving into high flood zones ...

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   Far more people are in harm's way as they move into high flood zones across the globe, adding to an increase in watery disasters from climate change, a new study said. Since 1985, the number of ...

8. Southwest Florida Water Management District - Wikipedia

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   WaterMatters.org. The Southwest Florida Water Management District (or SWFWMD, pronounced as "swiftmud" based on the word acronym) is one of five regional agencies directed by Florida state law to protect and preserve water resources. Established in 1961, the agency operates and maintains several large properties and flood protection projects ...

9. Speeding zones or bad intersections? Pasco wants to ... - AOL

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