[Discussion] How dangerous are flash floods?

[Yanks]

About 20 minutes ago, while watching T.V., I got a Emergency Broadcast system warning about a flash flood in the central county where I live. I don't actually live in the central part, more like the western area but sill. I never experienced one before so I'm just wondering is it something like this:

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[Reaper]

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That much I guess

 

[Imperfect]

They wouldn't give it it's own name if it wasn't to be taken lightly. Take precautions, just to be safe.

 

[The Western Wheel]

Flash(instant)flood.... a shitload of water flooding everything and dragging even cars and trees at times in it's wake....

nah... don't worry...


Seriously.... seek for higher ground if there's a real treat...

 

[Narutohokage7]

Depends on where you live. Usually though they can be pretty bad. If you're caught unawares you could drown easily.

Get to higher ground.

 

[Yanks]

Flash(instant)flood.... a shitload of water flooding everything and dragging even cars and trees at times in it's wake....

nah... don't worry...


Seriously.... seek for higher ground if there's a real treat...

Depends on where you live. Usually though they can be pretty bad. If you're caught unawares you could drown easily.

Get to higher ground.

Well considering:

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[Unbiased King]

Just throw some chakra on your feet and you'll be fine.

 

[cptenn94]

it can be pretty bad. If you live by a low lying area, or by water, then it would be advised to get to higher ground. If you live on the side of a hill, then you should be ok.

While we live high enough, that flashfloods, only affect some places we drive, we also live by a creek(like i can look out the window and see it right now). There have been more than 3 times in the last decade, that the creek has gotten withing 20 feet of entering our crawl space(1 time, it got so high that it was about 2 yards from entering)(that time we got to live on a island for a little bit )

However where i live, it is hilly terrain so we dont get a ton of flash floods. But we do get floods.

Please pm me and remind me, and ill take a picture tommorow showing the creeks normal height and then draw the lines showing just how big a threat floods can be.