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We are wrapping up a three year project assessing flash flood hazard in the United States. Our effort has three main components: 1) defining flash floods as opposed to slow rise floods; 2) reviewing the experiences of communities that are flash flood mitigation success stories; and 3) summarizing the advantages and disadvantages of warning systems. My presentation focuses on the third mission. Our work concentrates on flash floods in the United States but I am sure that some of our findings can be directly applied to international contexts and to landslide mitigation.
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Gruntfest, E. (1993). A Summary of the State of the Art in Flash Flood Warning Systems in the United States. In: Nemec, J., Nigg, J.M., Siccardi, F. (eds) Prediction and Perception of Natural Hazards. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8190-5_14
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