Month: March 2022

Can floods help nature?

Floods benefit communities and nature. Floods allow a river’s water to reach more areas above and below ground. This water can be stored and used by nature and people. They also filter pollutants out of rivers and nourishing lands to support ecosystems and fertile areas for farming. One of the next things we wondered was …

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Why are floods bad?

Flooding occurs nationwide The Midwest Spring Floods occurred as recently as 2017. Flash floods are the most destructive Loss of human life is the most tragic outcome of flooding. Some more things to look into are: flooding adversely affects health, flooding ruins valuables, flooding causes emotional distress, flooding impacts the economy, or flooding destroys the …

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What do flood factors mean?

Flood Factors are indicators of water reaching the building footprint, not the interior of the home. Calculation of Flood Factor rankings. That data on Flood Factor comes from the First Street Foundation Flood Model, a nationwide flood model that calculates the likelihood of a flood based on a location’s history and geographic information, such as …

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