flood

     

A floo is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word is applied to the inflow of the tide, as opposed to the outflow or "ebb".

Trivia about flood

  • Of the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah, or the flood, the one that occurred 1st
  • God promised Noah, "Neither shall there any more be" one of these "to destroy the Earth"
  • The mythical Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big vessel at God's urging & thereby survived this catastrophe
  • Like Noah's family in the Bible, the Greeks Deucalion & his wife were the only ones to survive this
  • Early 1800s:Catastrophism says big events, like the one in Genesis 7, shaped the Earth & its life
  • This 5-letter word can refer to an event in Genesis or to what you do in supplying too much fuel to your carburetor
  • Snowmelt plus ground still frozen from winter can equal this, the most common type of U.S. natural disaster
  • In 1948 the town of Vanport was so devastated by one of these disasters, it had to be sold for salvage
  • A "flash" one of these can be caused by persistent, heavy rainfall or the failure of a dam

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