Understanding Floods: Causes, Impacts, and Representation in Media Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

in his Nuova Cronica (illustration pictured), the 14th century Florentine banker Giovanni Villani described the destruction of the original Ponte Vecchio bridge during the flood of November 4, 1333.

parts of California were declared a disaster area when Hurricane Kathleen killed several people and caused millions of dollars in damage due to widespread flooding.

during the Civil War years, the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles experienced floods, droughts, a smallpox epidemic, and even a plague of locusts.

during a flood in 1937, Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky was partially submerged, and a worker caught a two-pound fish in the lobby.

completion of the Howard A. Hanson Dam (pictured) in 1961 ended a 70-year era of flooding in the Green River Valley, and by 1996, the dam had prevented an estimated US$694 million in flood damages.

despite being unfinished, the Lazaro Cardenas Dam successfully protected the Mexican towns of Gómez Palacio and Torreón from possible flooding triggered by Hurricane Naomi in 1968.

España Boulevard, the main street of Sampaloc, Manila, is notorious for its waist-deep floods during the Philippine typhoon season.

Understanding Floods: Causes, Impacts, and Representation in Media

1 What does the following picture show? Flooding of a creek due to heavy monsoonal rain and high tide in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Flooding near Snoqualmie, Washington, 2009. Debris and bank erosion left after the 2009 Red River Flood in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Floods in Bangladesh 2009

2 What role did Jessalyn Gilsig play in the TV series Flood?

3 Who played Mel's Dad the TV series Flood?

4 What role did Alby Daniels play in the TV series Flood?

5 Coastal flooding has been addressed in Europe and the Americas with coastal defences, such as sea walls, ________, and barrier islands.

6 ________ is protected from flooding by a huge mechanical barrier across the River Thames, which is raised when the water level reaches a certain point (see Thames Barrier).

7 What role did Nigel Planer play in the TV series Flood?

8 Causes include heavy rains from ________, hurricanes and tropical depressions, foreign winds and warm rain affecting snow pack.

9 Many have proposed that loss of vegetation (________) will lead to a risk increase.

10 What role did Natasha Clayton play in the TV series Flood?

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