- Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM)
Organization of professionals involved in floodplain management, flood hazard mitigation, the National Flood Insurance Program, and flood preparedness, warning, and recovery.
www.floods.org
- NOAAWatch: Floods
NOAA provides information about floods and flash floods, the number one weather-related killer in the United States. Find current river conditions and flood forecasting data from the National Weather Service 13 River Forecast Centers.
www.noaawatch.gov/floods.php
- Flood Warning
Describes flood warning technologies, methods, and partnerships.
www.alertsystems.org
- Wikipedia: Flood
Hyperlinked overview of floods. Provides main causes, flood planning and management, and significant historical floods.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood
- Johnstown Flood@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Community/History
- Great Molasses Flood@
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Great_Molasses_Flood
- Floodplain Management Association
Established in 1990 to promote the reduction of flood losses and to encourage the protection and enhancement of natural floodplain values.
floodplain.org
- HowStuffWorks: How Floods Work
Explores the negative impact of floods as well as some of the benefits. Article also examines how human construction can contain flooding or, in some cases, cause it.
science.howstuffworks.com/flood.htm
- NOVA: Flood!
Engineers have labored for thousands of years to lessen the risk, but their attempts at managing Mother Nature have been mixed, often resulting in as much failure as success.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/flood
- Ballard and the Black Sea
Dispatches from an expedition to the floor of the Black Sea in search of proof of the flood of the Noah story. From National Geographic.
www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea
- Willamette Valley Flood of 1996
Photos, causes, and comparisons to the flood of 1964.
zebu.uoregon.edu/1996/es202/flood.html
- Fargo Flood Centennial Page
Historic photos, and links relevant to flood conditions along the Red River of the North.
www.ndsu.nodak.edu/fargoflood
- Coping With Floods
Find out how to prepare your home or farm to best protect it from a flood. Also learn about dealing with flood-related stress.
www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/flood
- Weather.com: Flood Research
List of joint programs between private industry and governmental agencies forecasting and dealing with floods and flash floods.
www.weather.com/encyclopedia/flood/research.html
- Mystery of the Megaflood
PBS's NOVA investigates one of the Earth's strangest geological riddles, a colossal flood that struck eastern Washington State thousands of years ago.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/megaflood
- Principles of Flood Management
Provides a series of principles based on the scientific understanding of riverine processes and the repeated lessons gathered from disastrous flood events around the U.S.
www.friendsoftheriver.org/Publications/BeyondFloodControl/no1.html
- Virginia Floods
Examines the four basic types of floods that afflict Virginia: coastal, urban, flash, and river flooding.
www.nws.noaa.gov/er/lwx/Historic_Events/va-floods.html
- Rivers Unleashed - Flood of '97
Commemorative Special Section from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
enquirer.com/flood_of_97
- Photos of Flooding in the Salem, Oregon Area
Images of flooding along South River Road on February 7, 1996.
www.oregonlink.com/flooding
- Texas Flood
Photo essay of the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Allison. From Time Magazine.
www.time.com/time/photoessays/texasflood
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