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unusual facts about flood-meadow



1453 Yellow River flood

The 1453 Yellow River flood was a natural disaster in the area surrounding Shawan in Shandong, China, during the Ming dynasty.

2003 Santa Fe flood

On 30 January 2004, nine months after the flood and under the administration of Jorge Obeid, a demonstration asking for government assistance to those affected by the flood ended with the burning of the government house's facade and several offices destroyed.

2052

In Stephen Baxter's novel Flood, Mount Everest – the highest point on Earth – is submerged in this year.

Alameda Dam

It provides flood protection and irrigation for this area of Saskatchewan, along with protection for Minot, North Dakota.

Annesley Bridge

The Howth Road previously crossed at Ballybough Bridge, which was first built in 1308, washed away in a flood in 1313.

Bannberscheid

The community lies north of Montabaur some 260 m in elevation in meadowland with a gradually climbing slope, within the low mountain landscape of the Westerwald, which is framed by the high Westerwald and the Montabaur Heights (Montabaurer Höhenzug).

Bateau

The town of Ronceverte, West Virginia, commemorates the logging and batteau industry with an annual outdoor theatre, Riders of the Flood, where the spring rains sent harvested timbers down the Greenbrier River for the sawmills.

Cantre'r Gwaelod

Lewis takes the view that maps by the cartographer Ptolemy marked the coastline of Cardigan Bay in the same location as it appears in modern times, suggesting that the date of the flood occurred before the second century AD.

Castle Mill

Oxford University donors, such as Michael Moritz, and the University's Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Andrew Hamilton, have also been targeted with letters by the protesters, warning that the buildings "blot out the unique view of Oxford's Dreaming Spires from Port Meadow".

Charlene Strong

In December of that year, Strong's partner of nine years, Kate Fleming, died suddenly, when a flash flood trapped her inside her Madison Valley, Seattle, basement recording studio during the Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm.

Chipperfield's Circus

Chipperfield is now living in Berlin and is a successful DJ playing clubs across Europe and has worked with artists as diverse as Peaches, Robots In Disguise, IAMX, Angie Reed, Stereo Total, Planning To Rock, Bruce LaBruce, Heidi Mortenson, MEN, Kids On TV, Milenasong, The Fall, Damon Albarn, Stephen Malkmus and producers Alan Moulder (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins), Flood (PJ Harvey, U2) and Bruce Lampcov (David Bowie, Suede).

Cow dung

A buffalo chip, also called a meadow muffin, is the name for a large, flat, dried piece of dung deposited by the American Bison.

Edward J. Bonin

Bonin was elected in 1952 as a Republican to the 83rd United States Congress, defeating incumbent Democratic Congressman Daniel J. Flood but he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 in a re-match against Flood.

Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware

The Christina River at Cooch's Bridge crested at 2.38 feet (0.725 m) above flood stage, and the Red Clay Creek at Wooddale crested at roughly 4 inches (100 mm) above flood stage.

Elm yellows

In North America the disease is transmitted from infected to healthy trees by the whitebanded elm leafhopper (Scaphoideus luteolus Van Duzee), the meadow spittlebug (Philaenus spurarius) and by another leafhopper (Allygus atomarius), although other insects are also suspected of being vectors.

Floods in the United States: 2001–present

Flood damage was sustained in a swath from southern New York to the mouth, located at Havre de Grace in northern Maryland.

Friendly, West Virginia

The 1884 Heirloom tomato variety was said to be discovered by James Lyde Williamson growing in a pile of flood debris along the Ohio River near Friendly, after the Great Flood of 1884.

Gustav Krukenberg

It is widely believed that On 1 May, Krukenberg attempted to stem the Soviet advance by ordering sappers to blow up the S-Bahn tunnel under the Landwehr canal causing 25 kilometres of S-Bahn and U-Bahn tunnels to flood, which led to many casualties.

Hambledon Club

The current Hambledon Cricket Club ground is nearer Hambledon village at Ridge Meadow, just off the road to Broadhalfpenny Down, about half a mile from the village.

Harlebucht

The water encroachments into the hinterland in the Grote Mandrenke (Second Marcellus Flood) in 1362, which reached as far as the Geest near Jever, gave rise to side bays and greatly enlarged the Harlebucht.

Hiwassee College

The new institution was named Hiwassee, taken from the Cherokee word “Ayuwasi,” which means “meadow place at the foot of the hills” and is reflective of the beautiful region at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains where the campus is located.

Holocene glacial retreat

Excavations in Iraq, for example, have shown evidence of a flood at Shuruppak around 2900-2750 BCE which extended nearly as far as the city of Kish (whose king, Etana, supposedly founded the first Sumerian dynasty after the Deluge).

Jeff Gilberthorpe

A reaction to being stuck for hours behind a semi-trailer carrying a house up Tamborine Mountain in Queensland, this tale of a traditional "Queenslander" style house lifted out of the way of a deadly flood by its owner's judicious use of hot-air balloons led to a sequence of pictures detailing the flying house's journey over notable Australian landmarks, both natural and manmade, and illustrate the book Icon Collection.

Johnny Wardle

Apart from 5 for 79 and 3 for 51 on a flood-soaked pitch at Sydney, he had little to do.

Lauren Fix

2007 Stevie Awards - Best Marketing Campaign - "Flood Damaged Cars" from hurricane Katrina.

Macquarie Marshes

Among the variety of vegetation types supported by the marshes are River Red Gum forest and woodland, extensive beds of Common Reed, and meadows of Water Couch.

Manton, Kentucky

In the springtime these waters would flood, providing a waterway which lead first to the Salt River, then to the Ohio River and thence by flatboat the boatsmen could make their way to New Orleans.

Maureen Muggeridge

In 1979, Maureen married Towie's son John, she became pregnant and she discovered diamond samples in the flood plains surrounding Smoke Creek, a small stream in East Kimberley that drained into Lake Argyle.

Mungindi

Though 1890 brought a devastating flood which forced many families into difficulties and may have been responsible for the widespread of Prickly Pear which caused further hardship, many new names appear in Mungindi as selectors took up small blocks offered from land resumed after changes to land tenure in 1884 and as more tradesmen and businessmen took up residence in the town.

Oak Hill Wood

There is also an area of meadow which contains common wild flowers such as lady's bedstraw and common knapweed.

Oliverian Brook

The brook passes through a flood control reservoir known as Oliverian Pond before entering the town of Haverhill, where it passes through the villages of East Haverhill and Pike before reaching the Connecticut River near Haverhill village.

Pond Lane Flood Gates

Pond Lane Flood Gates is a redundant flood defence structure, located near Lea Bridge Road on the River Lee Navigation in the London Borough of Hackney, England.

Port Jefferson, New York

Suwassett was renamed in 1682 to "Drowned Meadow" after being settled by an Irish shoemaker from Queens named John Roe.

Robert Craft

Craft also led the world premieres of Stravinsky's later masterpieces; Vom Himmel hoch, Agon, The Flood, Abraham and Isaac, Variations, Introitus, and Requiem Canticles.

Šámalova chata

Šámalova chata is a mountain hut for bikers, skiers and tourists, situated at Nová Louka, a mountain meadow in Jizera Mountains (in Czech Jizerské hory) near the city of Bedřichov, district of Jablonec nad Nisou.

Samrong Sen

The Samrong Sen village, where the archaeological site is situated, is in the Kampong Leaeng District in the lacustrine flood plains, an area which is subject to backwater flooding from the Tonlé Sap lake and the Mekong River flows during the months of June to September (rainy season).

St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company

The St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company is one of the "central backdrops" to the plot of Pocahontas County author W. E. Blackhurst book, "Riders of the Flood." Every September the town of Ronceverte holds an outdoor drama of Riders of the Flood just belowstream the location of the mill company.

Stanford Viaduct

Built as part of the Great Central Railway's London Extension opened in 1899, it carried the Great Central Main Line over the River Soar and a road (Meadow Lane).

Ted Egan

Egan was the sole teacher at Newcastle Waters Station in 1965 and was stranded at the property for six weeks when the creek flooded.

The Bled

Silent Treatment was produced by Brian McTernan (Thrice, Converge) and featured a more evolved and heavy sound than what is found on Pass the Flask in addition to the slower melodic songs found on Found in the Flood.

TiVo

The baring of one of Jackson's breasts at the end of her duet with Justin Timberlake, which caused a flood of outraged phone calls to CBS, was replayed a record number of times by TiVo users.

Todd Snider

On December 20, 2013, Snider debuted a new band called Hard Working Americans at a benefit concert at the Boulder Thester in Boulder, CO for Colorado Flood Relief.The band's first album is a collection of lesser known cover songs, to be released January, 2014.

Toolstation

The company currently sponsors the Western Football League (which is also known as the Toolstation League), the Northern Counties East Football League and the RNLI Flood Rescue Team.

Tygarts Reservoir Dam and Lake

Tygarts Reservoir Dam was designed in part by architect Paul Philippe Cret and built between 1934 and 1938, as a project sponsored by the Public Works Administration to provide for flood control.

Udayan Higher Secondary School

It takes part in scout and girls guide activities and in serving distressed people in situations of flood or other natural calamity.

VMM-264

The squadron returned to flood ravaged North Carolina and provided real world contingency operations in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the citizens of North Carolina.

Volo Bog State Natural Area

The entire state park displays a microcosm of plant succession, from bog, through wetland, to sedge-grass meadow.

Walter R. Tucker III

He also worked with the Army Corps of Engineers to secure federal funding to repair the long neglected Compton Creek, thus eliminating the possibility of costly flood damage to the homes and property on either side of the waterway.

William Edward Addis

In 1888 he resigned the priesthood, after issuing a circular to his parishioners announcing his abjuration of Roman Catholic doctrines, and was married, at St. John's, Notting Hill, to Miss Mary Rachel Flood.

Winnall, Hampshire

It is the location of the Winnall Moors nature reserve on the flood-plain of the Itchen and the University of Southampton's Erasmus Park hall of residence.


see also

Veld

The veld definition may encompass different natural environments, both humid and dry, such as Coastal plain, Coastal prairie, Flooded grasslands and savannas, Grassland, Prairie, Savanna, Steppe, Meadow, Water-meadow, Flood-meadow, Wet meadow, as well as agricultural fields.