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1. floods

   A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrology and are of significant concern in agriculture, civil engineering and public health. Human changes to the environment often increase the intensity and frequency of flooding, for example land use changes such as deforestation and removal of wetlands, changes in waterway course or flood controls such as with levees, and larger environmental issues such as climate change and sea level rise. In particular climate change's increased rainfall and extreme weather events increases the severity of other causes for flooding, resulting in more intense floods and increased flood risk.Flooding may occur as an overflow of water from water bodies, such as a river, lake, or ocean, in which the water overtops or breaks levees, resulting in some of that water escaping its usual boundaries, or it may occur due to an accumulation of rainwater on saturated ground in an areal flood. While the size of a lake or other body of water will vary with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt, these changes in size are unlikely to be considered significant unless they flood property or drown domestic animals. Floods can also occur in rivers when the flow rate exceeds the capacity of the river channel, particularly at bends or meanders in the waterway. Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if they are in the natural flood plains of rivers. While riverine flood damage can be eliminated by moving away from rivers and other bodies of water, people have traditionally lived and worked by rivers because the land is usually flat and fertile and because rivers provide easy travel and access to commerce and industry. Flooding can lead to secondary consequences in addition to damage to property, such as long-term displacement of residents and creating increased spread of waterborne diseases and vector-bourne disesases transmitted by mosquitos.

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1. Floods

   "Floods" is a power ballad by heavy metal band Pantera from their 1996 album The Great Southern Trendkill. It is the longest song on the album, and the third longest song the band has ever recorded, after "Cemetery Gates", and "Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks".

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1. Floods

   Sudden onset water phenomena with different speed of occurrence. These include flash floods, seasonal river floods, and coastal floods, associated with CYCLONIC STORMS; TIDALWAVES; and storm surges.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of floods in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of floods in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of floods in a Sentence

1. Mustapha Debboun:

   A lot of pockets of water will be formed. As the water recedes from the floods there will be a lot of formation of pockets and pools of water where mosquitos will find to breed, more habitats will be available for them.

2. Nana Setiawan:

   I moved here three years ago, and as far as I know, normally the floods will only happen once a year or even once in five years. But this year it's already been four times and today is the worst.

3. Phil Thompson:

   It's the accumulated effect over time that will have an impact, if it floods 10 or 15 times a month, a business can't keep operating with its parking lot under water. People lose their jobs because they can't get to work. Seeping cesspools become a public health issue.

4. Don Willhite:

   The thing that differentiates it (drought) from all other natural hazards is the fact that it covers such a wide swath or spatial extent, floods are much more localized. (Drought) goes on for so long. The impacts accumulate year to year.

5. Sherry Rehman:

   Pakistan is living through one of the most serious climate catastrophes of the world, we are at this point ground zero of the front line of extreme weather events, which we have seen from early this year from an unrelenting cascade of heat waves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacier lake outburst events and now the monster monsoon of the decade.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods
2. ^ Wikidata
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