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"Tears I cried for that woman, gonna flood you big river. Im gonna sit
right here until I die"

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Relevant Pages

  • Re: River Flow Rates and Safety
    ... despite the flow rate of the river being less than it was on the Trent ... Go through one of those rising sector, anti-scour sluices and you _will_ die - in the process very possibly being beaten to a pulp as well as being drowned. ... The Thames is a well-managed river, in the sense of controlling a wide range of flows within an increasingly built-up flood plain. ... Unfortunately, the devices by which the river flows are controlled are for the most part devoid of any protection for unfortunates who, through no fault of their own, end up in the drink. ...
    (rec.sport.rowing)
  • Flood Warning for Northern California
    ... the Russian River was creeping toward the 32-foot flood ... "We've had people go out in canoes and rubber rafts during storms," Rude said. ... In Napa, an ongoing $300 million flood control project -- prompted by the last ...
    (sci.geo.geology)
  • Discussion Only....New Orleans...
    ... Flood Loss Reduction White PaperIn the wake of the Great Flood of 1993, ... Congress authorized the use of disaster relief ... nation's repeatedly-flooded homes, businesses and farms. ... between relocation and returning to the river bottoms. ...
    (misc.news.internet.discuss)
  • Re: Weybridge Head?
    ... Over recent years a lot of the extensive Thames floodplain between Maidenhead & Windsor has been put under roads & housing. ... But the job of a floodplain is to flood, & thereby to hold & retain sudden increases in precipitation which would otherwise course down & overload the next stretches of the river. ... Unfortunately, allowing the water which used to fill the floodplain now hose past Maidenhead had a consequence which any fule kno, but which temporarily escaped the thinking & mathematical abilities of the Environment Agency. ...
    (rec.sport.rowing)
  • Re: Where are the expressions of sympathy?
    ... vulnerable New Orleans was to such a disaster. ... But the Corps of Engineers ... adding levees and flood walls to its banks to prevent ... Ohio River and Minneapolis on the Missouri, all the way to the mouth of the ...
    (soc.culture.french)