The city has experienced major flooding in three of the past four years, including a record flood in 2009, and the Weather Service forecasts a rise of 31 to 36 inches this year.
Its deleterious influence abroad is evidenced by the flood of statements over the years by Israel's supporters claiming that Israel must vacate Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, appearing with LaHood, said the task force he leads that is overseeing the federal disaster response examined 10 years of FEMA flood mitigation efforts to reach the new standard.
Besides, experience over the past 30 years shows that flood damage keeps increasing despite the expenditure of vast sums on flood control.
In the next two years Novartis will unleash a flood of new drugs for an array of other deadly or debilitating illnesses asthma, diabetes, schizophrenia, organ failure, arthritis, skin disorders and eye disease.
But an early review of the case was granted after a flood of support for Dr Mannings, who set up Star Throwers three years ago.
Cattle drowned can be crudely counted (140, 000, says one estimate for Argentina's Santa Fe province, stretched along 800km of the Parana), and the loss of crops ruined by flood or drought can be reckoned, but the long-term effects may take years to show up.
The flood of new drugs that has reached the market in recent years has brought gains in patient care--and more than one unintended result.
Many of the city's current flood defences are about 50-years-old after being built in response to the River Exe bursting its banks in October 1960.
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Though they were all thrilled to know that Dugard was found alive in the home of her alleged captor, after being held in a series of sheds in his backyard, her discovery has also brought back a flood of feelings that gripped the town in the days, months and years after she went missing.
For example Canvey Island, which saw a terrible loss of life in the flood, has three times more people than 60 years ago.
According to computer simulations, today's defences in the Netherlands are supposed to withstand the kind of flood so severe that it would occur only once in 10, 000 years, he explains.
But recently, noticing the flood of deluxe dental-care options that have come to market over the last 10 years from all-natural pastes to chemically complex gels I decided it was time to reassess.
Then there's the flood of small, high-mileage cars from other manufacturers hitting showrooms in the next couple of years (see "Small Is Big").
At the same time, their patents on blockbuster drugs are expiring and opening a flood of lower-priced generics which could cost the industry tens of billions in revenues over the next few years.
Although the firm's founders registered the Dagadu Djokdja trademark a few years ago, they say they have received no help from the local government in staunching the flood of pirated Dagadu products.
Until the last few years, they have been stymied by the cost of storage, slower processing speeds and the flood of data itself, spread sloppily across scores of different databases inside one company.
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