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The amount of water required to cause a flood varies significantly depending on several factors, including the topography, soil saturation, and existing drainage systems. Generally, even a few inches of rainfall can lead to flooding in urban areas with poor drainage, while rural areas may require several inches or days of continuous rain to experience flooding. Additionally, factors like snowmelt and storm surges can exacerbate flooding conditions. Ultimately, there is no set volume of water that defines a flood, as it is context-dependent.
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How high can a flood get?
A flood can go as high as the land and water allow. There is no limit to the rise of flood waters because a flood is not a controlled event.
Too much of what causes a river to flood?
Water.
How much flood water do trees consume?
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What are the differences between flood and drought?
They are opposites to each other. A drought is no water, but a flood is too much.
What precaution should you take after the flood?
water shelter and away from windows
What are the effects of having limited water in dam and to much reserved water?
it will make a flood
Do floods cause water pollution?
yes they do. flood waters can take in rubbish into the water
How much water is classified as a flood?
It depends on the situation and the circumstances. A gallon of water on your bathroom floor is a flood. You can have flood lights that illuminate your yard. The doctor will flood your eye with water if you have a foreign object in it. We once had a flood in Iraq that was the result of a 1 inch rain. Since the water couldn't soak into the hard-baked soil, it caused lots of problems. That same 1 inch of rain in Oregon would be an everyday occurrence. The best answer is that a flood is more water than usual and there is so much that it causes inconvenience, up to and including property damage.
What happened when the tsunami wave started hitting the coasts?
much water flood much land!
Where does a flood form?
A flood will form in areas where there is heavy rainfalls and poor drainage. This means that there so much water that does not have an exit channel.
How does water turn into a flood?
Because it rains so much that there's too much water and the ground can't soak all of it in.
What is flooding water?
flood water is just when it rains for such a long time and the ground can't soak up the need water to matain the flood water
