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By Rome Birchfield Science Mr. Shepard. The North Carolina Clyde 2004 flood did a lot of damage to the town and killed two people a old woman and a firefighter.

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1 By Rome Birchfield Science Mr. Shepard

2 The North Carolina Clyde 2004 flood did a lot of damage to the town and killed two people a old woman and a firefighter.

3  Floods are caused by rainstorms, slow water runoff, earthquakes, broken dams, under water volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, hurricanes.

4  How to keep safe from a flood. Construct barriers such as beams, sand bags. From entering your home.

5 Was the North China flood it took place in 1939 500,000 people died.

6  Rushing water is so powerful. That it resembles a wall of concrete. Just a bathtub weighs about 1,500 pounds. Imagine that coming at your home.

7 There's two types of floods. One is a flood then there's a flash flood. The difference is a flood takes seven to six days to come a flash flood takes six hours.

8 On the left there is a wallaby standing on hay to keep safe from flood. On the right there's rescue worker saving a boy out of Queensland flood.


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