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The ground is literally sunk in some places by 10 or 15 feet over the past decade, that has literally changed the topography of the historical lakebed. Some places are lower even than they were the last time there was a big flood event. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This [storm] is going to bring a whole litany of concerns that are probably greater than we had initially anticipated a few days ago, frankly, even widespread moderate rain at this point is going to exacerbate flood conditions in some places — so not the best news. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is a conversation that a lot of people are used to having you know, especially some of our old-timers have been dealing with this a long time and they get it. We have people that live along the river and when the flood comes, they boat in and out. – Davenport Mayor Mike Matson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have 20 pumps that are set up, and we test the pumps. We practice the work when we think there might be a flood, all of our barriers for the flood are pre-staged downtown and we rehearse setting them up. We send out notices to potential impacts of any businesses or residents. They understand what goes on. So, we’re of course watching it. – Davenport Mayor Mike Matson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We had half the story that comes from hurricanes with our flood model, the other half of the story with hurricanes is the tremendous amount of wind force they have. – Matthew Eby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
However, for every day it doesn’t rain or snow during our wettest months, we are drying out, a lot of uncertainty remains about the next two months and water managers are maintaining reservoirs to hold as much water supply as possible while also managing flood control requirements and preparing for spring runoff. – Margaret Mohr	Found on CNN 1 year ago
New Zealand is very good at building communities on floodplains – there’s a large fraction of the population that live close to rivers that tend to flood, there tends to be the attitude that we can build stop banks and that will protect the community, and it does most of the time, until you get a really big event. – James Renwick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These glacial dams are no different to constructed dams, if you take the Hoover Dam, for instance, you’ve got a massive lake behind it, but if you suddenly remove the Hoover Dam, that water has to go somewhere, and it’s going to come cascading down a valley in massive flood waves. – Tom Robinson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The river flood stage is 29 feet. We hit 32 feet. – Jonathan Stornetta	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’ve already had more deaths in this flood storm since December 31 than we had in the last two fire seasons of the highest fire acreage burned in California. – Taylor Ward	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need new thinking, we need to operate that infrastructure differently, we need to change some of the characteristics of that infrastructure, that will allow us to capture more of these flood flows, store it underground in these aquifers, and then use those ground water resources when we need them in dry years. – Peter Gleick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have to let our rivers flow differently, and let the rivers flood a little more and recharge our groundwater in wet seasons, instead of thinking we can control all floods, we have to learn to live with them. – Peter Gleick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Republican leadership tends to flood cash behind moderate candidates who will take orders from leadership, and they leave conservatives often gasping for oxygen—conservatives who are strong, viable candidates, but they leave them severely underfunded, i think leadership should stay out of primaries…when they get involved in primaries, they’re almost consistently wrong. – De La Cruz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We have high wind warnings in effect, gale watches, flood watches and the soon-to-expire excessive heat warnings, the wind and the rain is moving on in and it will be significant Friday afternoon, through Friday night and early Saturday morning. – Alex Tardy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's never a good thing to get too much rain all at once, a trait all too common among slow-moving tropical storms, thus, the flash flood potential is summarily also rapidly increasing. – The WPC	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you go around [ Jigawa State ], we lost about 50 people to the flood. – Sani Yusuf	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If Jeremy Porter don't have a mortgage, regardless of whether Jeremy Porter're in the highest hazard zone of flooding, it is the homeowner's choice whether or not to have flood insurance. – Roy Wright	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We weren't in the flood zone, so we thought we were safe, i never would have dreamed it would get that high. – Colin Fultz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When this( flood) occurs again, the consequences would be wildly different than they were back in the 1860s. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think the extent of( megaflood) losses can be significantly reduced by doing certain sorts of things to revamp our flood management and our water management systems and our disaster preparedness. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'm here to talk about the flood and recovery from the flood. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Most of the current flood events have occurred from training thunderstorms, this weekend storms could become locked in one place as the topography prohibits their movement and enhances their accumulation. – Chad Myers	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are deeply saddened to learn that another flood has impacted a community still recovering from last year’s flood, in the wake of the devastation, I want Virginians in Buchanan County to know that we are making every resource available to help those impacted by this storm. – Glenn Youngkin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We’re going to get a flood of people. I have declared this as our safe harbor, this is where we have the Statue of Liberty welcoming people who are oppressed. Women who cannot receive the fundamental right to control their body or receive an abortion. They are oppressed. They are welcomed here in the state of New York. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

The ground is literally sunk in some places by 10 or 15 feet over the past decade, that has literally changed the topography of the historical lakebed. Some places are lower even than they were the last time there was a big flood event.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This [storm] is going to bring a whole litany of concerns that are probably greater than we had initially anticipated a few days ago, frankly, even widespread moderate rain at this point is going to exacerbate flood conditions in some places — so not the best news.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a conversation that a lot of people are used to having you know, especially some of our old-timers have been dealing with this a long time and they get it. We have people that live along the river and when the flood comes, they boat in and out.

– Davenport Mayor Mike Matson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have 20 pumps that are set up, and we test the pumps. We practice the work when we think there might be a flood, all of our barriers for the flood are pre-staged downtown and we rehearse setting them up. We send out notices to potential impacts of any businesses or residents. They understand what goes on. So, we’re of course watching it.

– Davenport Mayor Mike Matson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had half the story that comes from hurricanes with our flood model, the other half of the story with hurricanes is the tremendous amount of wind force they have.

– Matthew Eby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

However, for every day it doesn’t rain or snow during our wettest months, we are drying out, a lot of uncertainty remains about the next two months and water managers are maintaining reservoirs to hold as much water supply as possible while also managing flood control requirements and preparing for spring runoff.

– Margaret Mohr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New Zealand is very good at building communities on floodplains – there’s a large fraction of the population that live close to rivers that tend to flood, there tends to be the attitude that we can build stop banks and that will protect the community, and it does most of the time, until you get a really big event.

– James Renwick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These glacial dams are no different to constructed dams, if you take the Hoover Dam, for instance, you’ve got a massive lake behind it, but if you suddenly remove the Hoover Dam, that water has to go somewhere, and it’s going to come cascading down a valley in massive flood waves.

– Tom Robinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The river flood stage is 29 feet. We hit 32 feet.

– Jonathan Stornetta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve already had more deaths in this flood storm since December 31 than we had in the last two fire seasons of the highest fire acreage burned in California.

– Taylor Ward

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need new thinking, we need to operate that infrastructure differently, we need to change some of the characteristics of that infrastructure, that will allow us to capture more of these flood flows, store it underground in these aquifers, and then use those ground water resources when we need them in dry years.

– Peter Gleick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to let our rivers flow differently, and let the rivers flood a little more and recharge our groundwater in wet seasons, instead of thinking we can control all floods, we have to learn to live with them.

– Peter Gleick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Republican leadership tends to flood cash behind moderate candidates who will take orders from leadership, and they leave conservatives often gasping for oxygen—conservatives who are strong, viable candidates, but they leave them severely underfunded, i think leadership should stay out of primaries…when they get involved in primaries, they’re almost consistently wrong.

– De La Cruz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We have high wind warnings in effect, gale watches, flood watches and the soon-to-expire excessive heat warnings, the wind and the rain is moving on in and it will be significant Friday afternoon, through Friday night and early Saturday morning.

– Alex Tardy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's never a good thing to get too much rain all at once, a trait all too common among slow-moving tropical storms, thus, the flash flood potential is summarily also rapidly increasing.

– The WPC

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you go around [ Jigawa State ], we lost about 50 people to the flood.

– Sani Yusuf

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If Jeremy Porter don't have a mortgage, regardless of whether Jeremy Porter're in the highest hazard zone of flooding, it is the homeowner's choice whether or not to have flood insurance.

– Roy Wright

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We weren't in the flood zone, so we thought we were safe, i never would have dreamed it would get that high.

– Colin Fultz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When this( flood) occurs again, the consequences would be wildly different than they were back in the 1860s.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the extent of( megaflood) losses can be significantly reduced by doing certain sorts of things to revamp our flood management and our water management systems and our disaster preparedness.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm here to talk about the flood and recovery from the flood.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Most of the current flood events have occurred from training thunderstorms, this weekend storms could become locked in one place as the topography prohibits their movement and enhances their accumulation.

– Chad Myers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are deeply saddened to learn that another flood has impacted a community still recovering from last year’s flood, in the wake of the devastation, I want Virginians in Buchanan County to know that we are making every resource available to help those impacted by this storm.

– Glenn Youngkin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re going to get a flood of people. I have declared this as our safe harbor, this is where we have the Statue of Liberty welcoming people who are oppressed. Women who cannot receive the fundamental right to control their body or receive an abortion. They are oppressed. They are welcomed here in the state of New York.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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