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    The term freshet is most commonly used to describe a snowmelt, an annual high water event on rivers resulting from snow and river ice melting. A spring...
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    gap is most often carved by water erosion from a freshet, stream or a river. Gaps created by freshets are often, if not normally, devoid of water through...
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    Drowning Flash Flood Guidance Systems Flash flood warning Flash flood watch Freshet Huayco Lifesaving Kalla kadal Storm surge Jökulhlaup "Flash Flooding Definition"...
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    in seaquakes, waterspouts, artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools...
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    to the upper river, the section stretching from Yichang to Chongqing. Freshets from Himalayan snowmelt created treacherous seasonal currents. But summer...
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    (restricted by icing) of temperate latitude canals which suffered ice and freshet flooding damages with dreary regularity. When floods did affect railways...
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    channel year-round, and are capable of halting most of the river's annual freshets. However, high and low water cycles of the Missouri – notably the protracted...
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    to 12 feet (3 to 3.7 m) above the normal highwater mark and in 1887 the freshet caused the Maine Central Railroad Company rails between Bangor and Vanceboro...
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  • Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station during a freshet...
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    against the prevailing current when the tide is high, although in the spring freshet, this is frequently surpassed by the downstream volume of water. The rapids...
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    advantage is achieved F38.03.009 1935 4.144 7.126 799 854 Dew — is the Freshet in the Grass S06c.05.015 1914 2.044 5.044 1097 1102 Did life's penurious...
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    Quartz Creek in Ymir, during the spring Freshet in May 2020...
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    enquiry into Robert Graves's version of some Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Freshet library, no. 2. Abbey Press (Berks). ISBN 9780900012327 – via Hathi Trust...
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  • Floods in the United States before 1900 is a list of flood events that were of significant impact to the country, before 1900. Floods are generally caused...
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    Canoeing in Fredericton during spring freshet, 1887...
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    region-wide floods in 1894 and 1948, both associated with an extreme spring freshet of the Fraser River. Other major floods in the Lower Mainland – including...
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    hail, freezing rain exists entirely as a liquid until it hits a surface. freshet 1.  A springtime thaw of snow and ice that produces a significant local...
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  • Jacob Eelkens became commander on Christiaensen's death in 1616. In 1617 a freshet damaged the fort to such an extent that it was abandoned and rebuilt on...
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    traditions. The Kittanning Gap is formed from the erosion valley of a seasonal freshet, so is lightly eroded compared to other gaps of the Allegheny which have...
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    white-water sports. On salmonid rivers special releases (in Britain called freshets) are made to encourage natural migration behaviours in fish and to provide...
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  • Mohicans and Mohawks in 1617, and with Fort Nassau badly damaged by a freshet, the Dutch abandoned the fort. In 1618, having once again negotiated a...
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    The floodgates of the Grand Falls generating station, during the annual freshet of the Saint John River....
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    thus generates much more power when seasonal river flows are high (spring freshet), and depending on location, much less during drier summer months or frozen...
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    border at Kapitan Andreevo, is also named in honour of the river. Spring freshet of Maritsa River at Harmanli View from the river, Edirne. The river viewed...
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    River dried up in many places every summer at the conclusion of the spring freshet from the Rocky Mountains. Constant, steady flows down the Qu'Appelle River...
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    risk of a major flood if the Fraser River has an unusually high spring freshet. Recreational trails run along the tops of many of the dykes, and Richmond...
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    deep. The falls are from 3 to 12 and 15 feet high." During the spring freshet in June and July, the falls could be completely submerged. The falls were...
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    Russia, specifically in the Ural Mountains and Siberia. Snow melt caused freshets resulting in the Orsk Dam collapsing. In Russia, a federal emergency was...
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    Cai section, where the current may be quite fast, especially during the freshet season, traveling upstream in an wupan was much more difficult than downstream...
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    Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as...
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