- Are You Ready for a Flood or a Flash Flood?
Includes information on reducing potential flood damage, preparing a disaster supply kit, and what to do when a flood watch is issued. From the American Red Cross.
www.redcross.org/services/prepare/0,1082,0_240_,00.html
- 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
- 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
- Environment Agency: Flood
Find current flood warnings for England and Wales, a flood map to find the likelihood of flooding in your area, and tips for managing flood risk and installing your own flood defences.
www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood
- Fargo Flood Centennial Page
Historic photos, and links relevant to flood conditions along the Red River of the North.
www.ndsu.nodak.edu/fargoflood
- Flood Warning
Describes flood warning technologies, methods, and partnerships.
www.alertsystems.org
- Flooding Photos
Collection of photographs tagged with "flooding" on Flickr.
www.flickr.com/photos/tags/flooding/clusters
- Flooding: The Natural Disaster
ThinkQuest provides information on the causes, effects, types, and prevention of floods. Includes video clips and a glossary.
library.thinkquest.org/03oct/02054
- 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
- Floods - USGS Natural Hazards Gateway
Reports and news on floods, the high streamflow that overflows the natural or artificial banks of a stream or that submerges land not normally below water level.
www.usgs.gov/hazards/floods
- Great Molasses Flood@
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Great_Molasses_Flood
- 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
- Johnstown Flood@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Community/History
- Midwest Floods 2008 (5)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Floods/Midwest_Floods_2008
- 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
- National Weather Service: Water
NWS National Hydrologic Assessment highlights flood risks across the United States.
www.nws.noaa.gov/ahps
- 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
- 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
- Photos of Flooding in the Salem, Oregon Area
Images of flooding along South River Road on February 7, 1996.
www.oregonlink.com/flooding
- 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
- Red River Flood 2009 (15)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Floods/Red_River_Flood_2009
- Rivers Unleashed - Flood of '97
Commemorative Special Section from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
enquirer.com/flood_of_97
- Texas Flood
Photo essay of the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Allison. From Time Magazine.
www.time.com/time/photoessays/texasflood
- USGS WaterWatch
Map of real-time streamflow compared to historical streamflow for the day of the year for the United States.
water.usgs.gov/waterwatch
- 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
- 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
- Wikipedia: Flood
Hyperlinked overview of floods. Provides main causes, flood planning and management, and significant historical floods.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood
- Willamette Valley Flood of 1996
Photos, causes, and comparisons to the flood of 1964.
zebu.uoregon.edu/1996/es202/flood.html
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