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flood

vr.tr.flood · ACT.EVT

Let an agent handle floods by type, location, severity, warnings and response, and give safety information from official sources.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle floods by type, location, severity, warnings and response, and give safety information from official sources.

An overflow of water onto land that is normally dry, from rivers, the sea, heavy rain, snowmelt or failed infrastructure; also a subject of flood myths.

What it is for: Floods are hazards to manage; understanding them supports warning, planning and recovery.

It can be forecast and warn of it; prepare for and respond to it; map flood risk; recover and claim insurance.

Distinguishing features

Water on normally dry land

Types: river, surface water, coastal, groundwater, flash

Warnings issued by official services

Among the most costly natural hazards

What it looks like

Water covering land, roads and buildings; rivers out of their banks; coastal inundation from storm surge.

Physical character

depth: centimetres to metres depth - 15 cm of fast water can knock a person over

return period: 1 in 10 to 1 in 1000 years - probability used in planning

How it is recognised

Water where land is normally dry

Official flood warnings and maps

Debris lines showing peak levels

Related models

is a kind of - hazard

natural disaster

is caused by - rain

shower and storm

affects - exposure

road, building, city

is related to - contamination risk

sanitation

In practice

Families and kinds

river (fluvial) floods

surface water (pluvial) floods

coastal floods and storm surge

flash floods

groundwater floods

dam and levee failures

non-water floods such as mudflows

Identifiers

event id for example GLIDE number disaster events

Standards and regulation

EU Floods Directive 2007/60/EC

National flood warning services

Building and planning rules for flood zones

Failure modes and hazards

Drowning, especially driving into floodwater

Contaminated water and disease

Electrical hazards

Ignored or misunderstood warnings

Also called

deluge mythriver overflownon-water floodstorm surgefloods in Ivory Coast2024 Nigerian floodsVidorladajökulhlaupfluvial floodinggroundwater floodingsurface water floodingurban floodingacqua altafloods in Malaysiafreshettidal floodingmuddy flood100-year floodoutburst floodcoastal floodfloods in Afghanistanfloods in Thailandflash floodextratropical storm surge

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.flood-act

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Type and cause What kind of flood.

Type decides warning and response.

Type

River, surface, coastal.

Type

Flood type.

  1. What type of flood is it? definition
  2. What caused it? definition

Severity

Depth and extent.

Severity

Depth, extent and return period.

  1. How deep and extensive is it? measurement
  2. What return period does it represent? measurement
Warning Official alerts.

Warnings save lives if acted on.

Alerts

Warning levels.

Warnings

Current warnings.

  1. What flood warnings are in force, from which official service? provenance
  2. What does the warning level mean? definition

Protective actions

What to do.

Actions

Recommended actions.

  1. What should people do now: move to higher ground, avoid floodwater? action
  2. When should they evacuate? action
Risk Planning and maps.

Risk maps guide planning and insurance.

Risk maps

Flood zones.

Risk maps

Flood risk mapping.

  1. Is this location in a flood risk zone? boundary
  2. According to which map? provenance

Defences

Protection measures.

Defences

Defences in place.

  1. Which defences protect this area? definition
  2. What standard of protection? measurement
Recovery After the flood.

Recovery has health and financial dimensions.

Health

Contamination.

Health

Health precautions.

  1. What health precautions apply after flooding? action
  2. Is drinking water safe? boundary

Support

Insurance and aid.

Support

Support available.

  1. What insurance and aid are available? action
  2. How is damage documented? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should flood types be separate entries?
  • How should agents present live warnings reliably?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific floods; should they be split off?